Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found recently near the Jervois Mountains in southern Australia. The bone is the top of a female's skull. The hind part of the relic indicates that, from the rear, she looked like an ape with head canted slightly forward. She had very powerful neck muscles. Her walk was slouchy, but nonetheless habitually upright. Thus her hands were free and more nimble than an ape's. She probably could braid twigs, early step in the art which ends with fine embroidery. The front part of her skull looks more human than apish. She must have had a muzzle...
...Wilhelm Tang, a director of Deutsch-Südamerikanische Bank of Berlin, rose early last week, told his wife he was going for a walk in the garden. When breakfast grew cold on the table his children went to look for him. They found the body of Wilhelm Tang hanging from the branches of a pear tree...
...life. But lately if any one giving a tea or bridge party telephoned Mrs. Elizabeth Rend Mitchell, wife of Board Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank, a secretary was likely to reply: "Mrs. Mitchell is out of town." Or she was indisposed; or she was taking a walk. Mrs. Mitchell seemed never to be available. It was most puzzling...
...precise moment when the play begins is indeterminable. The perspiring summer audience enters to face a stage empty save for stepladders, light fixtures, odds & ends of stage tackle. Men in shirt sleeves, girls in bathing suits walk about chattering, apparently oblivious of the spectators. The job of selecting a chorus begins. Mortality was high among the sketches when first-night critics had done with them. Even the old hide-the-lover-in-the-closet blackout is exhumed. Boisterously the audience laughs at a burlesque of the unctuous radio announcer. Of the songs, all donated by their authors, four promise...
...better to slide than walk on your feet...