Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other, the equally transparent kinsman of the less gentle Betsy Trotwood. Dickens and Elinor Wylie! Then came a voice from a corner, crying, "I ask you?" But the voice was unfair. Just because a lady has divorced two husbands and married a poet, she need not fear to walk with Dickens, even in a room in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In fact Dickens might rather like to talk with her, might find her rather charming--far more so than the literary occupant of the brass bed found her book. Butterfly amours on damasque lawns beneath fragile moons, center stage, are likely...
...Patrick O'Donnell, Archbishop of Armagh, who cleaned "poteen-(Irish moonshine) from his diocese by making penitent drinkers walk miles for absolution...
...cultured as it is possible for department store voices to be. The store has 17 display windows on two main thoroughfares, 19 elevators, a complete escalator system running up and down from the street to the seventh floor. It employs 2,000 people. Within a few minutes' walk of the main building is a large new seven-story warehouse. On the roof of the main store is a radio broadcasting station, WCAE. This is the third national broadcasting station operated by Gimbel Bros., which already owns WGBS...
...Port Royal and in much demand at weddings. He was a most successful gambler, for he had a way with the dice and cards as well as with women. And if he was no end of trouble to his captain, he was none the less cock of the walk in the Negro quarter...
...Caller. Mr. Albert Petsch of Fredericksburg, Tex. is a representative in the state legislature. One morning last week he walked into the executive offices of Governess "Ma" Ferguson in a businesslike manner. He had a right to walk in with self-confidence, for he was a leader of the friends of the Governess last spring in securing the passage of a bill which restored to her husband the civil rights which he lost when as Governor he was impeached and removed from office...