Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, as on preceding birthdays (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934), newshawks sought out beautiful, little white-whiskered Dr. Charles Giffen Pease on his 81st birthday. Dr. Pease obliged: "My friends, I can tell a poison addict at a glance. I go into the park to walk. I pick out the children who are receiving cocoa, a drink as noxious as the poisonous alcohol. How can I tell? By the degeneracy of the skin, and the tissue around the eyes. It is unfailing. 'Madam,' I say, 'your child is receiving cocoa.' 'Yes,' she replies...
Deafness led to inner concentration but it made the man increasingly irascible, a pathetic groping figure when he ventured outside music. Biographer Herriot describes Beethoven quarreling with his cook, showering her with vermicelli, taking over the kitchen work himself. He liked to walk but he gesticulated so wildly that children often jeered him. For the first performance of Missa Solemnis he stood in the pit. supposedly to help conduct. He was oblivious to the fact that the singers skipped the passages which seemed to them too difficult...
...violent body contortions by which a sedate burgher tries to keep his feet when he slips on an icy walk are the results of a deep-rooted reflex possessed by all animals, fully developed in newborn babes, unshakable by training. Now that it imperils motorcar operators, Dr. Henderson thinks it could be successfully sidetracked by installing a pedal in the shape of a wide panel almost flush with the floor boards under the driver's left foot. When the "extensor thrust" shoots both his legs out, though the right foot may jam down the accelerator, the pedal pushed...
Abide With Me (by Clare Boothe Brokaw; Malcolm L. Pearson, Donald E. Baruch, A. H. Woods, producers). Up to last week the meanest, man to walk a Broadway stage in a decade was Stanley Vance, central character of The Dark Tower (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933). Vance, a homosexual sadist, kept white mice in his bedroom, cowed a family living in one of Manhattan's fine old gloomy mansions, finally sent his poor wife into a trance...
...Milwaukee, when members of meat cutters union local No. 73 picketed his store with placards saying, "UNFAIR," a butcher hired two fat Negro women to walk beside the pickets carrying bigger signs, "JUST MARRIED...