Word: walks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who journey to Parnassus go at their particular gaits. Some hobble, like Carlyle. Some stagger, like Henry James. Some swing along gracefully, like Addison. Some minuet, like Stevenson. Some swagger, like Marlowe. A great, great many simply walk. By courtesy we name all manners of proceeding " style " " literary style." The road to the White House is not identical with the pathway up Parnassus. Yet those who walk must have a stride, those who speak must have a style, and Mr. Coolidge has just presented the public with a new specimen of the Presidential literary gait-in 1,120 words...
Many a college student has perhaps wondered what under the sun drove the Mediaeval youth to walk across whole nations with his possessions on his back in order to hear lectures by the savants of that time. But if modern youths found themselves in the same case, that of having no books, newspapers or magazines, they would be quite as eager to learn of the world and other people and themselves, however far they had to travel. Not until one begins to imagine the horrible possibility of being marooned on a desert island does one realize the debt owed...
...York Herald: "In and out of the various counterplots is woven the most blinding sidelights on the horror that it must give a sensitive girl to walk along Broadway...
...National Review (British conservative weekly) printed this sour comment: " We regard a game at which the players never get out of a walk as unworthy of an athletic nation and as a miserable exercise for able-bodied men in the prime of youth and health and strength. There are few more depressing spectacles than that of a large crowd of the flower of both sexes watching two Herculean youths lying on a putting green endeavoring to ascertain the easiest means of poking a stationary little ball into a relatively large...
Clad in full army, kit weighing about 90 pounds, two British M. P.'s will walk from Banbury to Oxford, 23 miles, to decide...