Word: walked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next week, when she has taken her walk to the Nieuwe Kerk, Juliana will be inaugurated (she will not be crowned, because the truculently democratic Dutch do not like their monarchs actually to wear the crown, which is considered the property of the state, not of the monarch). Juliana will swear to "protect the general and individual freedom . . . the general and individual prosperity ... as it is the duty of a good Queen to do." Then the chairman of the Joint Session of the States-General will, on behalf of the sovereign people, pronounce the proud and wary formula: "By virtue...
...Walk Together. Messrs. Styne & Cahn are, after Rodgers & Hammerstein, perhaps the most successful songwriting team on Tin Pan Alley. In the seven years they have been partners, they have writ ten 150 songs together, sold 6,000,000 copies of sheet music, made the hit parade two dozen times and first place nine times (among their hits: I'll Walk Alone; It's Been a Long, Long Time; Give Me Five Minutes More.) They earn $150,000 a year. Jule, who was born in London 42 years ago, was a piano prodigy who was guest soloist with...
...According to Messrs. Styne & Cahn, this is how the title to their first hit was born. Since then most of their major decisions, and the titles of their best songs, have come like that. Like their brothers on Tin Pan Alley, Styne & Cahn believe that a tune either "romps," "walks," "bounces," or you put it away. Says Jule: "You can't fight it; either it comes easy or you don't play with it." Last week the latest Styne & Cahn hit, It's Magic, was the nation's No. 2 best seller in the jukeboxes, though...
...Kansas, where victory in the Republican primary is about equal to election, popular ex-Governor Andrew Schoeppel, 53, easily won nomination to the Senate seat being vacated by ancient (83) Arthur Capper. Governor Frank Carlson, 55, was renominated in a walk...
...cutting a narrow trench 80 feet from the mill, Godfrey hopes to find traces of the "ambulatory walk" of the Norse church. Uncovered thus far: a 1696 King William III penny, a lead musket ball, an old brass button, a clay pipe...