Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make sacrifices. . . . The regulations issued are but an integral part of our economy program. . . . I ask [veterans] to appreciate that not only does their welfare but also the welfare of every American citizen depend upon the maintenance of the credit of their Government and that every citizen in every walk of life is being called upon to share in this." ¶ Three days prior President Roosevelt issued orders clipping 15% from the pay of every Federal employe, civil and military. Excuse: Living costs have dropped 21.7% since 1928. Estimated savings...
...course, you know this is all a fake. I didn't just walk into this picture and find myself talking. It was all pre-arranged and we just rehearsed...
...Angela's previous predicaments are larks compared to what happens when Giovanni is at the front. He is brought down in an air fight over enemy terrain. Thinking he is dead, Angela studies to be a nun. Giovanni recovers but gets caught trying to walk back to Italy. By the time he escapes prison camp, Angela has taken her vow of chastity. Giovanni pleads with her to break it. She has no sooner convinced him that this is impossible than a bomb drops on Giovanni. This time he is really done...
...Harriman's walk in life was one of the best. He was a socialite and an equestrian, a conspicuous member of all the best clubs from the Union to Piping Rock. On a ridge at Brookville, surrounded by one of the few groves of real trees still alive on Long Island, he built himself a huge rambling house, with terraced gardens, a pool on each terrace, and drives flanked by Japanese maple, dogwood, evergreens. He wore a cropped mustache and bejewelled stickpin, was referred to as an "oldfashioned banker." one whose suggestions were "received with respect in Washington...
...Evanston, Ill., when the last of five extortion letters directed Mrs. James A. Patten, 75, relict of Chicago's wheat tycoon, to walk at night down the street with $50,000, a policewoman set out from the Patten house at the specified time disguised as Mrs. Patten, carrying a dummy packet and a revolver. Detectives caught one Axel Peterson, 52, onetime well-to-do landscape gardener employed by Charles Gates Dawes, Chicago Utilitarian Rufus Cutler Dawes and Northwestern University...