Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking about adventures some of Renarto's are far from tame. He came to this country at the age of fifteen On the night of his arrival he left his shoes on the fire escape: in the morning he had to walk bare-footed to the nearest shoe store. Later when he joined the array, he found out that talking after taps even on Sundays means a stay or two in the guard house The worst of it was that he did not understand the Sergeant the first time and therefore got a double dose...
Lincoln was not a happy man. Said his friend and partner Herndon: "His melancholy oozed from him as he walked." Depression led him into absent-minded habits, so that he would walk through the streets in a trance, laugh at the wrong times, and speak out of turn. Once for two days he neglected his law business while he sat, surrounded by compasses, calculations and rulers, trying to square the circle. He split rails and infinitives with equal ease: when he had written his letter of acceptance of the Republican nomination in 1860, he took it to the Springfield superintendent...
...Walk in Jerusalem Jus' like John...
Into the lives of parents with school-age children has come a great convenience, the School Bus, which rolls through suburban streets or coughs along country ruts, collecting and depositing pupils at certain corners at certain hours. The dallying child who misses the morning Bus will have to walk to school, and schools are farther from home than they used to be. There's less chance for fighting, for getting dirty, for catching cold in the Bus than there was when children went by foot. But also, though the Bus driver is a man carefully chosen for steadiness...
...Opening of the Chicago Civic Opera Company's two-week season at the Boston Opera House. First production: Die Walk...