Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quick walk through the 21 galleries of the exhibition showed reporters two things...
...help. Faulkner ran out to the beach, roused neighboring fishermen. In the darkness they could see nothing; but again came the anguished shouts from the bay. The tide was out. For two miles from the beach stretched a sea of soft red mud on which no man could walk. For two hours the shouts could be heard while the watchers waited for the tide to rise. Just as a boat was floated, the shouts died away. For an hour the rescue party searched the bay, then had to run for shore lest the outrunning tide leave them stranded...
...William Orpen, K. B. E., R. A. was born in Stillorgan, County Dublin, 52 years ago. He was an incredible little man who looked like a Gaelic gnome, used to smoke 70 cigarets a day, eat four meals, sleep twelve hours and walk 15 miles. To an enormous circle of acquaintances he was known quite simply as Billy Orps. His career started in 1890 when he won a L2Q scholarship at the age of 12 and began to study painting at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He went to London and studied at the Slade School when that dusty...
...index of employment in the iron & steel industry was at 72.4% in July against 87.3% a year before. The result is a large "floating surplus" in steel towns. If the 517,000 steel workers whose pay was cut, or was in danger of being cut, were to walk out, many of them would find their jobs readily filled by unemployed under obligation to no union. A year ago, when the steel industry was operating at 60% of capacity instead of 29%,, there might have been trouble, regardless of lack of unions, had wages gone down. The same was true...
With a tragic, white face Judge Oakes returned from his conference. "I am obliged to call this a mistrial," he said. Court attendants flocked around him sympathetically, watched him walk slowly out of the courtroom. When he got home he sent his motherless 14-year-old daughter away, climbed into bed, telephoned his friend the county medical referee to come over to his house. Then Judge Oakes shot himself through the head with a revolver...