Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once there were dread Magicians who sold to unscrupulous Knights charms guaranteed to render them invisible. Assume for an instant that such a charm could work. Then an army of knights so provided might walk boldly & unseen into the City of Hamburg, select 11 victims at random, and plunge invisible but deadly swords through their hearts. Perhaps the invisible knights would round out a day of ghoulish sport by maiming 200 more unsuspecting men, women & children. Such fiends would delight to steal upon a wedding party and strike down the bride, the bridegroom and the guests. As their sadistic fury...
...more cynical can see good advice to future feminine aspirants to office in the results of the trial. It will not need many more years of experience before they can take their place as accomplished politicians along with their brothers and husbands, but meantime they had best either walk a bit more softly or let their male relatives manage the trouble some details...
...female figure painted on the ceiling, and chants in a nasal sing-song that can be heard down the outer corridors: "And that lady there is called the Eye of Gawd, yes, the Eye of Gawd. An' if you wonder why she is so called, just walk around the desk here, yes, this way around, follow me, watch the Eye of Gawd, it follows us around, wherever we go, sees you, sees me, sees everything we do, follows us right around to here again, well, that's the Eye of Gawd, an' it watches down over...
...Joliet, Ill., sheriffs attached for debt the $25,000 automobile bungalow of C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle, promoter of the run a little, walk a little, transcontinental marathon...
...empty as a box marked "discarded baseballs" after an assistant manager has been near. By train, boat, automobile, airplane, even a few by "ride soliciting", Harvard is making its way southward, as the swallow flies. Last night New York was filled with the men who by day walk Mount Auburn Street. This morning the gentleman from Indiana and Westmorly, arm in arm with the class baby of 1911, will measure with his eye the cool quadrangles of Princeton, and to him they will be dodecahedron...