Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they were most strenuous for the actress. "We are continually studying the audience," she said, "in order to get the right effect. So much depends on the little things. You must close a door with the most mysterious manner, there must be an added significance in the way you walk across the room. It is fun though to try and thrill the audience. Once the cast has them in its power we enter into the spirit of the thing and almost frighten ourselves. Again we have to rehearse one episode dozens of times to get the right effect...
Adolphe Menjou, sophisticated cinema actor: "When I walk about the Hollywood streets these days, few know me. In Evening Clothes, now being filmed, I appear in full beard. The beard is real...
Lying in the cradle at the age of six months, shot-putting is practiced vigorously with managers in the form of nurse-maids judiciously returning the blocks and other impedimenta hurled out of the bed. No sooner is a child able to walk but he has a desire to go faster, and this, strange to say, is the beginning of running, except that the child only wants to get somewhere Jumping over the threshold is a rainy day sport of the three-year-olds, and when at nine one is caught stealing the neighbor's apples one is surprised...
...Ophelia Harrison was visited last May by a hooded company. Her way of living was not liked. They took her away in an automobile, stripped her, beat her until her body was livid with stripes, left her to walk home-six miles...
...which, contrasted with his thin and week-looking legs, made him look top-heavy. Most Arabs seem to have weak legs and very small feet, probably because of the fact that their ancestors invariably rode if they had distance to travel, even if it would be only a short walk for a European. When Hamids, or "Ham and," as I later called him, was too young to object very strenuously his parents cut a series of little "V" a on his forehead, one above the other in the manner of an inverted, or English, chevron, and then rubbed...