Word: walks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played. But Nan Marriett Watson as Amy, who comes from Frisco to wed him, runs her gamut of emotions with accuracy and some sweetness. Richard-Whorf, as Joe, the rolling stone, has a peculiarly slow-moving part; it is rather possible that he overdoes his shiftless speech and dawdling walk. But the spectator soon accepts him; and he makes an undeniably handsome swain...
What the half element in American life does not affect, those with a "sense of humor" accomplish. Indeed, if all of the people in this country, instead of intelligence tests, were given humor tests, and the successful sunk in the western ocean, Gertrude Ederle could walk to Honolulu and Italy colonize in the Middle West. That great fault in the genus Americans, an over developed sense of humor plue that blessing of a youthful nation, credulity--those two factors are enough to march a dictator's army up the steps of the White House and make the presidential silence...
...slow, thick voice. He wanted to please the captain; he must keep on being surprised. . . . Perhaps these men with pencils would be surprised if they saw a great island covered with seals like flies on a lump of sugar. Perhaps they would get stuck if they had to walk for five days without food through a world of blue ice lighted by stars as big as melons. Perhaps they would shake, as he was shaking now, if they saw cold fire creep across heaven and throw, with a noise like tearing silk, luminous sheets of red, yellow and green into...
Charles Evans Hughes: "I called on Premier Poincaré last week and emerged just as Secretary Mellon entered his antechamber. Mr. Mellon and I chatted for a moment and swopped friendly boasts about how each of us had recently taken a ten-mile walk to keep fit. Frenchmen who avoid walking whenever possible, were intrigued, the more so as my age is 64 and Mr. Mellon...
...workers and the city's Commission Council. To them he now marched and with a few crisp words of common sense, a bit of gruff humor and some judicious ejaculations, soon brought concord out of conflict. The strike was off. New Orleans, in hot August, did not walk to its work or play. The carmen adopted a resolution of thanks to Editor Ballard for "injecting" himself into their affairs. It was most unusual for a 20th century editor, in a big city, to do such a thing-to descend from his rostrum, divested of the editorial...