Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Justice Salmon was unimpressed. Said he: "You are a minute and insignificant section of the population who have brought shame upon the district in which you live, and have filled the whole nation with horror, indignation and disgust. Everyone, irrespective of the color of their skins, is entitled to walk through our streets in peace with their heads erect, and free from fear. That is a right which these courts will always unfailingly uphold...
...Internal Revenue agents found him sitting in his car in front of Findlay Street Neighborhood House, a recreational center for slum children that he heads. When they told McCrackin to come along, he refused to budge. They lifted him out of his car and he refused to walk. So they carried gangling Pastor McCrackin to their own automobile, drove him to the Federal Building, carried him into the elevator (where he sat on the floor), and carried him first into the marshal's office, then into the tax commissioner's office. They carried him back to the marshal...
There were many who took full advantage of these services, and spent their summer in the steps of Wigg. These characterized the Harvard type: "so engrossed in thought as to walk through red lights," "falsely English," or "fish-belly white...
...sight of his kid brother attending White House teas and moving knowledgeably about Washington was a revelation. Milton's home on 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue was only a short walk from the Wyoming Apartments where Ike and Mamie lived. The brothers fell into the habit of spending evenings together at Milton's dining-room table, locking heads, thoughts and aspirations. They discovered a remarkable community of interests. "We were not only intimate," says Milton, "but we found that we liked to talk over our problems together." Ike has since added: "Our thought processes dovetailed very closely." Over...
...quieter attractions-but a good one-was white-thatched, bushy-mustached Otto Witte, a lifelong circus performer who made his first public appearance as a lion tamer at the age of eight. All Otto had to offer was stories, but it was a blase man indeed who could walk away from Otto's tales of how his skill at magic won him the honorary chieftainship of an African Pygmy tribe, or of the time that he tried to elope with the Emperor of Ethiopia's daughter...