Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missouri's stocky Claiborne announced: "As a good drinking man I'm interested in this beer bill for drinking purposes. I not only want a good glass of beer but I want a good drink of whiskey and I hope the time will come when I can walk into a decent saloon and get both." Then he sat down, chewed his cigar impatiently...
...largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's First), whom his fellows call "The Tall Pine of the Sierras." An expert on church law, Dr. Matthews thundered: "No presbytery has a right to elect less than its full quota. . . . If there is not enough money for expenses, let them walk. If they cannot walk, then something is the matter with their feet as well as their heads. This is the time . . . when the Presbyterian Church should function at its radio of power, the reason being that the nation has gone crazy...
...plunge beyond or to deny superficiality. Mr. Hill plies with nimble grace about prominent folk, furbishing dull news monotones with sprightly adjectives and keen imaginative sense as to detail. Herbert Clark Hoover who found that there was "something wrong with the blueprints", Franklin Delano Roosevelt who would "rather walk than be president", "Humpty-Dumpty" Ivar Krauger of the "great fall", "Playboy" Jimmy of the "Primrose Path", Smith Reynolds "who had never quite got a grip on life", Dr. Rosenbach whose "little gold pencil flipped up" -- all these and a hundred more slide into memory and out again with epigrammatic case...
...dividends is received by such rascals as Jews; and 2) schaffendes or "creative capital" which is the life blood of German enterprise and therefore good, even though paying interest or dividends. Thanks to this masterly though absurd "distinction," a Hitlerite can preach expropriation of capital to factory hands, then walk into the directors' room and promise protection of capital, remaining all the while "consistent." "National Socialism." the name of the Hitler Party, is another piece of intentional confusion, useful in catching both Nationalist and Socialist votes- votes which had meant exactly opposite things until stirred into Hitlerism...
Forsaking All Others has a set, a combination of cosiness and opulence, executed by Donald Oenslager, which may be recorded as the best-looking stage drawing room on Broadway. Miss Bankhead's lazy walk, assured head-tossings and general air of supersophistication are interesting: one understands why London "gallery girls" formed Tallulah Bankhead clubs. Her performance is as smooth and exciting as a planter's punch. You will probably not be able to recall what it was that she and clever Fred Keating said that made you chuckle, but you will remember chuckling...