Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flirtation Walk (Warner). That patriotic fervor is an emotion only a shade less potent at the box office than mother love and Christian piety is a premise which the cinema has demonstrated periodically from The Birth of a Nation to The President Vanishes. Warner Brothers were quick to perceive that flag-waving is as well suited to light musicomedy as to serious drama. Flirtation Walk, made with "the full co-operation of the U. S. Army." is an animated advertisement for West Point, Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, and military discipline in general. In it, Dick Powell is the impudent private...
...Chicago adopted as an official song "Flag of Maroon" by Donald Randall Richberg, '01, Director of the National Emergency Council. The song is one of six written by Student Richberg who, no grind, also edited the University of Chicago Weekly, won a Varsity "C" for the mile walk, helped found the Order of the Dragon's Tooth (later Phi Gamma Delta), sang in the Glee Club, led cheers, was graduated with no honors. "Flag of Maroon...
...began reading about "AABENRAA, a town of Denmark." Two years later, without having skipped a word between, he came to "ZYGOTE, the biological term for the fertilized egg," closed the last volume, went prayerfully to bed. Next morning he arose at 6 a. m., took a five-mile walk with his wife. After breakfast he sat down at his desk in the centre of a horseshoe of book-stacked tables. When Anderson Baten left his study sometime between 2 and 3 o'clock the next morning A Complete Dictionary of Shakespeare had been definitely started...
Professor Palmer, last living philosopher of the William James and Royce era in Harvard history, was, for several years before his death, the oldest living Harvard professor, and his stooped figure and hesitating walk were familiar sights in the Yard. He was born on March 19, 1842, in Boston, and after attending Phillips Exeter Academy for two years, entered Harvard in 1860. After his graduation in 1864, he went to the Salem High School as under-master, but was forced to stop teaching after two years and travel for his health...
...paralyzed muscle twitches when the doctor applies an electric current to it, the nerve is not entirely destroyed. By careful training the muscle can learn to work again. If the nerve is dead, the muscle wastes away and never recovers. President Roosevelt will probably never again walk without braces but by persistent effort, massages and Warm Springs water he has trained the withered muscles of his legs to take up part of their duties...