Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boded news?perhaps?when Mr. Creager walked into the White House last week, because early in November, when the Coolidge "choosiness" was at its foggiest, Mr. Creager was reported to have promised, in a characteristically red-headed moment, to walk right into the White House some day and "pound on the desk" and ask President Coolidge "just exactly what he meant by choosing not to run." People on the Rio Grande wanted to know, and the red-headed rooster thereof would find...
Retorted Governor Johnston: "Rather than see her leave here because of some of the things those fellows are saying, I would just put on my hat and coat, and walk right out that door with...
...false teeth in Mayor William Hale Thompson's capable mouth, has orders to chew up Superintendent McAndrew. It refused to receive his statement. Whereupon Superintendent McAndrew silently collected his papers on his desk in the "trial" room, turned his back on the board and began to walk...
Such has been the fallibility of elevators in the past that last year an old gentleman from Wisconsin visiting Manhattan preferred to walk to the eleventh floor of the Equitable Building rather than entrust his person to the onslaughts of the pert chauffeurs who, with what seemed to him to be smiles of malice, offered to propel him toward his destination...
...cold rooms, life trickled on in Avarice House. Emily would walk through the halls counting the furniture that would be hers, when her mother died. Mrs. Fletcher would tighten her lips and help the cook to scrub the floors and bake the bread. The old invalid would lie upstairs, her mind full of a thin despair and a narrow, terrible enmity. At last, one afternoon, Emily came in to find her grandmother dead. Whether her mother had found the medicine which Mrs. Elliot had expected her to provide, could not be told. Perhaps she had discovered some drug to still...