Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coast when overhauled by Coast Guard Cutter No. 249. "King" Alderman, a begrizzled, bespectacled salt of 48, was removed to the cutter. Suddenly he whipped out a hidden revolver, became captor instead of captive, lined the crew along the rail. He debated three plans: 1) to make the guardsmen walk the plank; 2) to fire his own boat and set them adrift in it; 3) to scuttle the cutter with all hands aboard. With himself he debated too long, for the guardsmen rushed him while he pondered. His gun cracked spitefully. Three men dropped to the deck dead-Guardsmen Sidney...
...judges know of this quantitative test. They depend upon the layman's crude idea of drunkenness?can the accused walk a straight line, can he stand on one leg, can he clearly enunciate "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Perhaps a medico-legal diagnosis of just what does constitute drunkenness may evolve for the world from clinical investigations which Belgium's Societe de medecine legale now has under...
...Sometime in October" Walter Evans Edge will walk out of the Senate chamber for the last time, submit to Governor Larson his resignation as senior Republican Senator from New Jersey, sail grandly overseas to France, establish himself, his beauteous wife, his four chil dren, his entourage of valets, maids, nurses, cooks, butlers, chauffeurs, in the U. S. embassy at Paris. President Hoover last week sanctioned publication of news that Senator Edge will be the next Ambassador to France, succeeding Myron Timothy Herrick, deceased (TIME, April 8). Rich, social, commonsensical if not brilliant. Senator Edge worked long and late...
...Commissioner Voorhis' eyes are a little dim, his ears a little deaf, his walk a little shaky, but otherwise he is well-preserved. Strong of will, sharp of speech, he still lives in Greenwich Village, takes a ham sandwich to work with him for luncheon. He advises young men to stay out of politics, is "for the women-strong," opposes Prohibition, would like to see New York City made a separate state...
...jostled and babbled, stood tiptoe to see over itself. Those who fainted were removed to a dozen handy Red Cross stations. On most lips was a question: Would the Pope ride on a resplendent podium, borne on the shoulders of twelve stalwarts? Or, as he had suggested, would he walk? Everyone hoped that he would ride. Pius XI is 72. He would have to carry the weighty monstrance containing the Host. The day was hot. Besides, riding, he could be seen better...