Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taking a walk one afternoon at 5:00, the President was nearly run down by a Ford delivery truck driven by a Negro. Just as the President was crossing the street between the White House and the Treasury Building, the car swung into the street from Pennsylvania Ave. Two secret service men seized the President by the arms and drew him back. He said nothing...
...starts gaspeing for words he creates in the mind of his audience a favorable prejudice which will make up for all the sins he may subsequently commit. William Hodge has mastered this sort of stage helplessnoss. He has learned to lie down and let the rest of the cast walk over him in the same passive manner in which Andrew Gump, that great idol of the middle West, obeys the call...
...Women walk forth, unveiled, without protective eunuchs. Laws against polygamy are talked...
...fundamental democracy of Scandinavians is traditional, ingrained. King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway habitually walk about the streets of Oslo (the capital) completely unattended, sometimes even escape being recognized by their subjects for hours. King Haakon's elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark, adopts only a slightly greater reserve toward his subjects when he and Queen Alexandria drive about Copenhagen. At Stockholm, Queen Victoria of Sweden often amiably looks on while King Gustaf V plays tennis with Swedish army officers, or with almost anyone to whom he happens to have taken a fancy. Therefore, Scandinavian newspapers noted...
Paulen, the Dutch middle-distance runner who is also entered with Watters in the 600 yards arrived last night on the steamer Olympic from the flat country, and will have little chance to whet his spikes before the race tonight. A brisk walk will probably be all the exercise he will get before the meet starts. As foreign stars in all lines of sport have taken several days to get acclimated before competing, it is doubtful whether Paulen will put on his best exhibition before his next meet...