Word: walks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University students do not take much stock in the superstition that walking under a ladder brings bad luck. A lamp cleaner placed his ladder across the walk leaning against a lamp post on the corner of Quincy Street and Massachusetts Avenue. During the five minutes the ladder was across the walk, 22 men, most of them students, walked boldly under the ladder and tempted the gods of fate. In the same interval only one person took the trouble of walking around the foot of the ladder and avoid the consequent ill fortune...
...Haven, Conn., October 16.--Charles Nash Blunt of Port Huron, Mich., a freshman at Yale, was severely injured last night when he fell four stories onto a concrete walk in front of Fayerweather Dormitory here last night. He was still on the danger list in a hospital today...
Their skiis, of which there are several pairs, about four feet long and one foot wide, are covered with fur on the under side. The hairs point towards the back of the skiis and this enabled the Yakets to walk up hills without the use of skii poles, for the fur bushes up when there is a backward pressure on it, thus presenting a roughened surface, which sticks to the snow and will not slip...
...Significance. To read this latest of Donn Byrne's books is to walk a quiet way by the sea in Ireland and among greening hills and over the wide ends of the earth, with a kindly, brave man whose talk is chiefly mellow reminiscence. Because he thinks of gone days and people that live no longer, he thinks simply. His telling is not confused with detail. Because he is kindly and brave, he tells wistfully and with honesty of emphasis, without false pity for dead glories nor false praise for ancient virtues. Being Irish and a mellow man, he tells...
...gave her a check for $1,200 to buy dresses in Manhattan. She saved $1,000 of it. Dress was not one of her luxuries. She would walk aristocratically into a distinguished hotel wearing a rusty gown, pinned up the back, shabby, "at the elbows." She was an aristocrat, but chiefly in manner. She did not speculate with her wealth, but invested in railroads, in Standard Oil. She was of Quaker stock, which may explain her frugality, but she turned Episcopalian. She married Edward H. Green. She replied to Suffragists who requested her aid: "I do not approve of Suffrage...