Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What is Spring?" she asked, "Spring," he answered, "Why Spring is when men sit on the front steps in the twilight smoking, when their wives sit with them, when all music is a waltz, when little girls tie blue ribbons in their pigtails and older sisters walk together laughing in the darkness. It's when young boys go shouting up the street a older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press, when the man in G-32 borrows a car and goes to Wellesley, when the debutante reads poetry, when the moon is a soft golden...
...chief cities it visits the big show is preceded by an oldish, gentle-voiced, persuasive man named Dexter Fellows. He will walk into newspaper offices, announce that spring (or summer or autumn) and the circus are coming, then plunge into an alliterative orgy. Reporters (as did Manhattan reporters last fortnight) will write of his arrivals in such terms as these...
Slightly less potent in the theatre, more effective in an art gallery was the exhibition of young Jo Mielziner (pronounced Melzeener). Born in Paris 31 years ago, Jo Mielziner was set to drawing by his artist father almost as soon as he could walk. In the U. S. he studied in the Art Students' League of New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He won the Cresson scholarship two years in succession, studied painting in Vienna in 1919-20 when Austria was falling to pieces. Director Max Reinhardt was doing magnificent things on the stage...
...tasted good. She kissed me. We started for dance on my horse. We stopped at muddy draw to walk across. Then she began hitting me with her bag, teasing me. I thought she wanted to marry me. She didn't fight...
When two armed bandits walk one evening into the city post office, Kvisthus, one of the clerks left on duty, is killed. Clerk Lydersen. in a panic, throws himself on one of the bandits, is knocked out. Clerk Berger, who has had time to think, when faced with two revolvers thinks some more, hands over his cash box finally. The bandits escape, and Clerk Berger's troubles begin. The police commissioner, the newspaper, everybody accuse him of cowardice. Berger knows that he was no coward, that he had done the only sensible thing, but even his wife grows cold...