Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas Fils, "La Dame aux Camelias" is not only an excellent moving picture, but it affords American audiences an opportunity of seeing the lovely Yvonne Printempts in her native element. It may be the last such opportunity, for Miss Printemps is soon to walk among the alien corn of Hollywood, and what sort of screen vehicles her mentors there will give her, none can tell...
Allied also chose to walk alone in the chemical industry, ignoring its competitors' new policies and products until it slowly and surely passed judgment on the innovation. Partly, that was due to its remoteness from the public: its customers are steady and its products standard. A farmer may spread Arcadian nitrates on his fields; a townsman may drive his car over Tarvia roads or keep out the rain with Barrett roofing; a housewife may buy Polar moth balls. But the average indirect consumer never sees the aniline in his blue serge suit, the tanning alkalis in his oxfords...
...infamous readiness with which people strung words together into half-articulate speech without having the slightest inkling of the essential meaning of things." Richard's mother was just beginning to enjoy her widowhood: her husband had been a sinister "nighttime" character, who would not go for a walk on a spring day because "the world burns inside us, not outside us." The father's queerness had taken various forms in his children: Emilie had left home to pleasure, not better herself; Susanne was a quiet religious maniac; Otto wanted to be an artist but had to work...
King Christ, this world is all aleak; and lifepreservers there are none: and waves which only He may walk Who dares to call Himself...
...cool in the Ritz at five o'clock. Another hound? And when you come out it's still light, and you can walk through the Public Gardens and pick tulips if you've had that many cocktails, and then on to dinner at Locke-Obers where they still have oysters. This is the last week--so Charley will tell you. Then on and on and on like so many songs. Shoulder to shoulder, bolder and bolder. Bolder and colder and older and greater and much later you find yourself at the Crescent Club. Stick to scotch, Please! Can't anyone...