Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appropriating agencies continue to make their appropriations under the old, antiquated, worn-out system . . . we will find there is little, if anything, that the Government can do [toward immediate relief of unemployment]. "The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. In times of prosperity and plenty, the public . . . orator who would suggest a measure for unemployment relief would find it most difficult to get an audience. . . . There is little doubt in my mind that we may be able to work out some system of deferring portions of public works and holding them in reserve...
...Director Richard Wallace, Ruth Chatterton and a brilliant cast to make this picture command respect for its poetic content, the most interesting thing about it remains the technical perfection which it displays. Ruth Chatterton at 18 and Ruth Chatterton at 45 not only chat in the same room but walk past each other, in defiance of the old law of double exposure. Another new technical departure is a device which, more effectively than any other tried heretofore, eliminates "ground noise," i. e. the scratch and hum of projection machinery. The dialog is thrown into high relief, not always...
...university got its start in this way: first there was a row of books, usually belonging to a nobleman or rich merchant: next, there was a clique of young men who had obtained his permission to walk in and read the books and also his permission to copy them: then, as the news spread, scores, hundreds and even thousands of young men came pouring in from other cities, all ambitious after learning: by that time, the early comers had got well on in their study of the books and could help out beginners. Later on, helping out beginners became...
...Sutcliffe. The wedding service: "Do you this lady for your wife take, to pay her bills, praise her steak? To honor and love and keep her well from the marriage hour to the funeral bell? Cherish her well, in sickness or health, to share in poverty or in wealth? Walk the floor when the baby comes? Buy it rattles, bottles, drums? Love her well enough for this? Take the lady with a kiss...
...immediate relatives of the cast than to the public at large. A new high is set in Princeton satire, however, with a song which demonstrates how to become a member of one of the better Princeton clubs, particularly how to greet classmates on the main campus thoroughfare, McCosh walk. "Doing the McCosh walk" advises young men to arch their backs, protrude their chests, ignore less fortunate friends while grinning servilely at prominent classmates. Incidentally, the tune is one of the liveliest in the show. Other appealing melodies: "Something in the Air" and "On a Sunday Evening" (recorded by Guy Lombardo...