Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three sons. One, Lehr, was House parliamentarian under Speaker Longworth. In Washington Senator Fess lives alone at the exclusive Carlton. He spends as much of his time as possible on his seven acres at Yellow Springs, where, emulating Henry Clay, he practices his speeches pacing a flagstone walk and addressing the birds. He is no sportsman. "My golf stick," says he. "is a hoe." Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a dependable party wheelhorse, inoffensive, pleasant, industrious (his critics call him "fussbudgety"), of average intelligence and below-average imagination. As long as the U. S. has partisan government, his type...
...Commander Locker-Lampson has done a great service to Sir Oswald Mosley by the mere fact that this bill was brought in and by the advertisement thus given him. . . . Bill Smith of England is a very different person from August Schmidt of Germany. He won't let anybody walk over him, either in peace or in war." Not one of the 615 members of the House of Commons voted to bring in frightened Commander Locker-Lampson's bill...
...Palo Alto, Calif., one minute's walk from Citizen Herbert Hoover's home, students of Stanford University held a debate. The question: Should alumnus Herbert Hoover be returned to the White House? Debater Will Rogers Jr.: ''No . . . Roosevelt blazes the trail." The decision: No, seven...
...covered with bleak, crumbling mountains, grassy plains, thick jungle. Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony. The lizards claw out great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared, highly emotional. Angered, they hiss like boilers. Frightened, they vomit...
Horton, on the mound for the Blue, hurled a game so light that as well as allowing only four weak scattered hits in nine innings of close ball, he fanned 15 men, giving only one walk, Christopher and Staples, on the mound for the Crimson coheres, hurled the fourth game in which their team has engaged this week, both turning in creditable jobs, in spite of tired arms. Between them they gave two passes, 11 hits, and struck...