Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solution conceived within the framework of the League," that affronted entity must turn the blade of Sanctions against Ethiopia and away from Italy in case Il Duce should accept the "good offices" of Britain and France within that framework. Into this trap last week the wily Ethiopian did not walk. Informally to correspondents His Majesty excoriated The Deal but he did not officially reject it. Neither did Dictator Mussolini officially accept it or even permit himself to be informally quoted. Everyone stalled...
...Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Flagstad exhibited a voice so clear and powerful, so even throughout its range, so flawless in its phrasing that most critics went ecstatic. Four days later came Tristan und Isolde and all hats were in the air. Flagstad could sing. Though she indulged in no pyrotechnics, she was quietly effective as she raised the cup, offered the love potion to Tristan. Again at the end she reached rare heights when, with her voice still fresh and sure, she kneeled beside Tristan's body and sang the demanding Liebestod...
This street we walk, these noisy tenements...
Almost any name pulled out of a hat will have attached to it a man who can walk down at the head of a procession with a baton in his hand. So no particular and serious harm has been done in the past by the ridiculous procedure of Class Elections, where the electorate, though uniformly above the average in intelligence, finds itself completely ignorant and uninformed concerning the qualities for or against the candidates...
...book of Musick which I think is not so good as his utterances on the nature of our souls and the natural light and the like. And thence by water to White Hall and there saw King Charles at Chapel; but staid not to hear anything, but went to walk in the Park and there among others was pleased to meet my friend John Dryden who did talk to meet my friend John Dryden who did talk to me of the purpose of poetry that it was to "instruct delightfully" and I sought to draw him out to talk...