Word: walks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gave a year ago to get his apprentice's license. Riders who know him well suspect that he is really two years younger. Like his brother William, who died of injuries after a fall at Agua Caliente last year, Jack Westrope could ride as soon as he could walk. He went to Florida last winter as contract rider for a Texan named Oscar Foster. By the time Foster, who lives wherever he happens to be racing his string of horses, moved to Chicago for the Hawthorne meeting in August, Westrope had ridden more than 150 winners, established himself...
...methods and the mechanics of the composition of a newspaper, and of widening their sphere of acquaintanceship among the faculty and student body: Candidates, however, will not be confined to the University in their work; frequent opportunity will arise for those so desiring to interview prominent figures in every walk of life from politics to the chorus. The alert man will receive credit for his scoops and special articles; he will penetrate the mystery hovering about twelve point Roman caps, and he will acquire the esoteric art of reading slugs, still red and glowing from the linotype. In fact...
...Joseph Medill Patterson, who rarely appears, looked bored but patriotic. He didn't mind the walk for he had marched in the big war with an artillery outfit...
...Neurological Institute. Dr. Frederick Tilney, Neurological Institute chief, thinks that civilized parents coddle their infants too long, that a child should be taught initiative and self-confidence from his earliest weeks. Dr. McGraw began to teach Johnny exercises on his 20th day. She showed him how to sit up, walk, creep. For a while he did not learn very well, but when he reached the creeping stage he began to pick up his athletic tricks rapidly. To demonstrate the validity of this thesis Dr. McGraw let Johnny's twin develop like a traditional baby. Twin Jimmy cannot skate, refuses...
...picture opens in Dr. Biff Grimes's dental parlor, where he is tippling with his friend Snappy Downer and thinking how sad he still is because, years before, Virginia Brush got married to rich Hugo Barnstead. Into the office walks Hugo Barnstead, to have a tooth pulled. Biff Grimes grimly turns on the gas, apparently planning to leave it on until Hugo is out of the way. Then comes a long flashback. It shows Biff Grimes, in youth a boastful lout, and Hugo (Neil Hamilton) meeting Virginia (Fay Wray) and her less exciting friend Amy Lind (Frances Fuller...