Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary. He has a better use for it than as a tip. He slips it into his pocket; there is no jingle from any companion coins. Squaring his shoulders and relaxing his features into peaceful friendliness, he attacks the gradual elevation of worn stone steps. Afterward he will walk home. It will be all right, proper. Today the best people will walk, and he will walk among them and be part of them. The arched entryway swallows...
...sheen is still present, although better disguised. Sometimes it is in the face, where the smile is false and automatic, sometimes in drooping shoulder or eyelid, or in unjustified hauteur. No dollar bills, no returned quarters. James or William, the chauffeurs, know that today their passengers will walk the customary four or five blocks on Commonwealth Avenue or Tremont Street before the car is to cruise tactfully past and pick them up last the master's shoe begin to pinch his corn. But, under pain of dismissal, not until the world and the photographers have noted madam's attire...
...Klee's methods of drawing has been summed up by Critic Herbert Read as "taking a walk with a line." This is an accurate description not only of his procedure but sometimes of his scale: the expanse of paper or canvas being imagined as a field of any dimension up to, and possibly including, infinity. It is Perambulator Klee's frequent achievement not only to imagine such a field for himself but to open it up somehow to the spectator. One water color in last week's show, Bird, Ph Feeds Ur with the Snake, at first...
After working, eating and sleeping, most U. S. citizens have some 40 hours a week left. They may loaf, talk, read, walk in the park. But their biggest single recreation, accounting for one-fifth of their spare time and a bigger proportion of their spare cash, is commercial entertainment. The U. S. people each year spend about $10,000,000,000 (an estimated one-fifth of their income) for all forms of recreation, including their public parks. One-third to one-half of this goes to the biggest U. S. industry-commercial recreation...
Here in Oxford all the best people read TIME every week. Your reviewer did us a disservice when he told us [Feb. 14] that Dry Guillotine was "heavy with unrelieved nightmare." I finally read it and now walk on air, feeling "What a piece of work is man!"-ish and convinced that among yeggmen, politicians, editors and college freshmen there may be-must be-something of the spirit that carried Rene Belbenoit to his goal...