Word: walks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Light of the Western Stars, by Zane Grey, gives Mr. Noah Beery an opportunity to express, by flexing his facial muscles, lust, anger, confidence, contempt for his enemies as one Brand, who always gives his victims the choice between paying him $10,000 down or taking the walk of death, haha. He has designs upon a girl. Her true love, a surefooted, sound-toothed Benedict bowls Brand over...
...British Embassy building on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, is to be sold. Sir Esme Howard, who recently made the announcement, said: "When I walk through these rooms the building seems to reproach me." And well it might; for however dingy it looks from the outside, the interior is indeed beautiful and imposing. A liveried footman opens the door and in front is a heavy blue carpeted hall or reception room with a massive staircase to the rear, down which Queen Victoria, seated, gazes from the enormous dimensions of a gilt frame. To the left are two drawing rooms and the ballroom...
...stands up in a box, causing 15 minutes of this and that. For those who receive impressions more readily with the eye than the ear, acts have been designed. "The Rotisserie," in which four girls, trussed on enormous spits, baste in front of an electric fire; "The Promenade Walk at the Beach" which sends 50 odd and some beautiful bathing suits skipping behind the rotund personality of Miss Frances Williams; the "Palette" scene, in which the Hoffman girls emerge, one by one, from a paint box, disguised as pastel crayons; "Cellini's Dream," difficult to describe. All these...
...pair of shoes. Arbuckle tossed him a pair of his own enormous brogues. "There you are, man," he said. "Perfect fit!" Chaplin put them on, cocked his battered derby over his ear, twisted the ends of his prim mustache. His face was very sad. He attempted a jaunty walk which became, inevitably, a heart-breaking waddle. He put his hand on the seat of his trousers, spun on his heel. Arbuckle told him that he was almost funny. Such was the research that led him to "create a figure that would be a living satire on every human vanity...
...seen the Punic triremes walk...