Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Rt. Rev. William Frederic Faber, 74, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Montana; of drowning: in Paradise Creek, Glacier National Park, Mont. Search parties found his body two days after the Bishop, an ardent mountain-climber, had left for a walk...
...half years Myrtle had given them news of the old lady, had made them write her notes, had trudged to the post-office every month to collect her mother's $40 Civil War pension. When Myrtle arrived for the 30th time for the pension, the postmaster decided to walk back to Mother Bishop's with her. He found part of Mother Bishop cremated in a fruit jar, part of her stuck in a trunk, all of Mother Bishop dead two and a half years...
Sports pages this spring have been full of stories about how Cunningham's legs were burned in a school-house fire so badly that doctors did not expect him ever to walk again. When Bonthron was a child, he encountered a live wire while climbing in an apple tree. The result was a burn which left a large scar on his left leg. Like Venzke, who used to run to work every day for training, Bonthron goes everywhere on his own two feet. He owns no automobile, dislikes streetcars because "they stop at every corner." In racing against Cunningham...
...prowess as a labor peacemaker. Although a secret ballot of U. S. Steel's employes last week showed, according to Iron Age, that 95% of the company's employes opposed a strike, the bloodiness of all past steel strikes made the threat of such a walk-out still one of the most grievous prospects for the Administration. On "Madam Queen's" shoulders rested the queen's-size task of ending...
...molasses candies and toffee for their money. Repeal, too, flayed its part in the candy business. Some unscrupulous businessmen in New Jersey discovered that candy containing hard liquor could be sold to children. Teachers in Brooklyn and Philadelphia began to note their pupils' dull eyes, thick speech, wobbly walk. The candies, selling for 2? apiece, held benedictine. cherry brandy, rum or cognac. Six of them, the equivalent of a short, stiff cocktail, were enough to make a child drunk. Several shopkeepers were arrested, claimed that they had bought the liquor candies for cash from a mysterious...