Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swiss Alps. For a passionate Alpinist most of Belgium is as flat as a hand but lusty Albert thought he knew a place. Only a few days earlier the Belgian Cabinet had set aside the cliffs near Marche-les-Dames as a national park. Marche-les-Dames-"The Walk of the Ladies"- got its name from 139 Noble Widows of Crusaders who in 1101 pooled their resources, built an abbey above those cliffs and retired there to spend the rest of their lives. King Albert knew that the cliffs were nearly 600 feet high, full of exciting chimneys, crevasses...
...coins, far from their U. S. Treasury home. Last year the directors had bought 20,000,000 francs worth. Briefly they considered luring gold-hungry Frenchmen by using them as chips, giving players the genuine feel of gold. But they were afraid that hoarders would buy the precious coins, walk out without playing. Last week Frenchmen were obliged to play before they could collect the coins, the only kind of minted gold many a Frenchman has ever seen. They paid practically the current gold rate, 260 francs for a $10 gold piece, whereas $10 in U. S. paper would have...
...much do you walk, daily average...
...Bloom, the wanderer in search of home, wife and son. Penelope was his wife Molly, Telemachus, Stephen. Other obvious parallels: Hades, the graveyard; the Cave of Aeolus, the newspaper office; the Isle of Circe, the brothel. A less obvious parallel: the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, Bloom's walk through the National Library while Stephen and some literary men are discussing Aristotelianism (the rock of Dogma), Platonism (the whirlpool of Mysticism). Ulysses' slaying of Penelope's suitors has its counterpart in Bloom's casting from his mind scruples and false sentiment about himself and Molly. Almost...
Miss Hopkins, really the only one in the cast who does anything but walk about and strike attitudes, draws all that could be drawn out of this hodgepodge. It has, at best, a dark effectiveness, which she makes the most of: in the dinner table scene, in the bacchic moment of her triumph, in the resolution of hers and her lover's destinies in the end. Helen Claire, who plays her rival, sets off her unscrupulous cleverness for the best effect. Truly she makes a fine, sinister Jezebel, and if a beautiful wicked and elevah woman has any attraction...