Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't know the War was over," said Rudolf Kutz. "Nobody told us till 1929. We asked to be sent back, but nobody paid any attention, we had to walk. There are lots of fellows in that Siberian prison who don't know yet that peace has been signed...
...array of grand dukes and even His Holiness the Metropolitan (head of the Russian Orthodox church) could hardly wait to sit for Brother Elmer. Elmer repeated the performance in Sweden, won from King Oscar praise that paved his way through all Scandinavia. Henrik Ibsen, ill and unable to walk, was gladly wheeled before the lens of the ubiquitous young man from Kansas...
With 137 seats out of a possible 245 and a clear majority over all political parties, the Conservative party ousted Canadian Liberals from their nine-year roost fortnight ago. Last week stern-jowled Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister-elect, was cock of the Canadian walk. Editors in Britain and the U. S. sat back to analyze the results...
Last week came more news of kinetic, scrub-brush-headed Professor Valdemaras. Into the woods near Kroettingen he innocently disappeared with two friends. Ostensibly they had set out for a walk. When they came to a road, a car quietly pulled up alongside them. Professor Valdemaras & friends had started to get in when up sprang an alert guard, ordering them to halt. Vainly did the Professor argue that he was just going to take "a little ride in the country...
...minutes after the question was originally put all doors are locked, except those leading into the West ("ayes") Lobby and the East ("noes") Lobby. The Speaker then directs the members to "divide." Up they get, out they walk into the lobbies of their choice. As they do so Division Clerks record their names and these are counted by four Tellers whom the Speaker has previously appointed and who report to him. Members who are present but wish to abstain, merely remain in their seats. Finally the members re-enter the House and the Speaker tells them what the tellers have...