Word: walks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That same evening, William Plant, U.S. walker, defeated Ugo Frigerio, Italy's Olympic champion, established a new world's indoor record of 22 min. 6 3/5 sec. for the 5,000 metre walk...
...serious attention. Not so a certain old man who sits all day under a green celluloid visor, peering at papers in the editorial rooms of a certain metropolitan daily. His clothes are shabby; he is unable to play any musical instrument; if in a ball game, the pitcher should "walk" him, it would take long for him to get to first base; but he is paid money, this dilapidated curmudgeon, for one distinguishing asset-the length of his nose. He smells news as a hound smells an opossum. He drew a circle in red crayon around the advertisement...
...begun to move. Hahn, Ray, saw it go past them, round the turn, into the last lap. Six yards from the tape, Nurmi looked over his shoulder. He saw Ray, swaying, agonized, fighting to take second place from Hahn. He slowed down, stepped through the tape at a walk. His time- 4:13 3/5-broke by a second Ray's world record for the indoor* mile...
Small things huddle together in bundles, herds, packages; the great walk lonely. It is strange to see a school of whales, a troop of tigers; stranger still to see a congress of pianos. Yet, on the r.tage of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, were marshaled 18 of these great, suave, sable instruments, in neat rows. Most remarkable of all-before each sat a famed player, before each a face which alone might have been enough to bring to the hall the notable company that filled it on that evening. The company had assembled, the pianos trundled into line...
...veins and the drums of war tapping. She ob- served with the keenness of a cocotte and wrote with the freshness of a nun. Thinking herself at a garden party- as indeed she was-she perfectly described the setting for one of the bloodiest trials of history. Great people walk absently through her pages. Emerson, whose soul she compares to a glass of water; Washington Irving, "a man with large, beautiful eyes" James Russell Lowell, "brilli- ant, witty, gay"; Henry Clay uttering his battle-cry "California", "the last syllable of which he pronounced in a peculiar way"; Amos B. Alcott...