Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just start something. You'll ride the cushions home and there'll be food for you. That's more than Hoover did for you. I'm giving you guys a break. What do you say? [A minor murmur of dissent.] Then you bums can walk and I'll see you get a damned good start. I won't call in any troopers to massacre you. I'll put you to hell out myself. . . . I'll knock the teeth out of anybody who hangs around here...
...Metre Walk, an Olympic event that it cost nothing to watch, was examined from the rear last week by Los Angeles urchins who followed the walkers through Griffith Park. Thomas William Green, 39-year-old English railroad worker, was immune to jeers or encouragement. He started slowly, took the lead after 28 mi., when seven other walkers had collapsed from the heat, finished first in 4 hr., 50 min., 10 sec. Second was Janis Dalinsh of Latvia. He collapsed at the finish, had to be carried home as did Ugo Frigerio, winner of Olympic walking races...
First noise in the ceremony was the thump of a drum outside the stadium. This was the signal for Vice President Curtis to walk across the field, sit down with the members of the Olympic Committee. After a choir of 1,000, dressed in white, had sung the ''Star-Spangled Banner," came the parade of athletes. First in the parade were the Greeks; then in alphabetical order, came the Argentines, in green coats and white trousers, the Australians, in white suits and sun helmets, the Canadians, in bright red coats, and a single Egyptian, wearing a red fez and carrying...
Picking over the 195 arriving delegates' luggage, Canada's reporters commented that some of it seemed to have been bought for the occasion and that some of the stuff was just wrapped up. They recorded that Premier Bennett had to walk down to the last car of an incoming train to meet Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin to whom Mr. Bennett said, ''Greetings...
...Washington police. Every ambulance in the city, fire trucks, patrol wagons, taxicabs and private cars rushed to the wharf. The Charles Macalester steamed in, her decks packed with sick, prostrate picnickers. Children wailed, women sobbed. A woman on the dock became hysterical, had to be led away. Stretcher bearers, walking carefully on the horrid decks, bore away 54 of those who could not walk. Doctors & nurses gave first aid on the wharf, poked patients into ambulances. Some 200 others were placed into trucks & cars, hustled to hospitals. The steamer went back for those who had refused to return early, found...