Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captain takes charge of a ship, purposed to navigate it like an old New England skipper. Finding that the one of the chief obstacles in his way was his crew, he set out to remove it. Plans were laid, and last week he announced that the weak must walk the plank, and traitors hang from the yard...
...President took a five-mile walk one morning...
With shining morning face, who should walk into the Palais des Nations but Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. Said he, before he left, the U. S. should send a minister to the League, "to observe its work and report its activities to Washington...
...simply as she would have shed her soiled blue wrapper. He yawned at her solicitude, snapped at her tenderness, sneered at her complaints, assumed high dudgeon when her desperation became vindictive. His sooty little conscience glowing at her quick repentance, out he marched, free to take a new lodging, walk the London streets after work and supper, fondle his mustache, boldly scrutinize passing women and wait, thinking himself a very audacious chap of the world indeed, for further chances to cheat life of amorous adventures where the women gave all and he, Amédée Ripois, gave nothing...
...Vienna, Soprano Maria Olszewska -she who, annoyed by Maria Jeritza's loud interruptions at a performance of Die Walküre, assailed the latter with a shot of saliva and was forthwith dismissed from the Vienna Staatsoper (TIME, May 25)-last week was reinstated. Offered part of her back pay, she accepted it but announced that, rather than use any of the management's "dirty" money for herself, she would give it to charity...