Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living expensively, bibulously, had long been fired from his bank. The morning after one last desperate party he decided to kill himself, went up to the penthouse to step over the edge. But there a girl was waiting for him. She persuaded him to go for a walk, and told him about her own troubles, which were worse than his. Her father had killed himself; her sister had died in a sanatorium for drug-addicts; her brother had gambled the remaining family fortune away and died of a broken heart; her mother had gone blind, died a few months...
Would You Like to Take a Walk and He's Not Worth Your Tears (Columbia) -Ben Selvin plays with his usual skill but his unnamed vocalist walks away with the show...
...bitterness that seems always to follow equestrian sculpture. When the late great "'Marse Henry" Watterson, Confederate scout, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, first saw St. Gaudens' equestrian statue of General Sherman being led by an angel, he said: "Just like the - - to make the lady walk...
...Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, prelates and priests of the various orders of the hierarchy, chief objects of our daily solicitude as well as sharers and helpers in our labors. We beg and exhort each one of you to persevere in the vocation in which he was called, and that you walk worthily in the vocation in which you were called: feed the flock of God which is among you, being made an example for the flock in your souls, so that when the Prince of Shepherds shall appear you may receive a never-fading crown of glory...
...this diversion of student traffic a minor annoyance has become a public nuisance. I refer to the condition of the sidewalks on the west side of Quincy Street. During the last few days of thaw the curbings have enclosed a river of viscous, soupy, yellow mud quite impossible to walk in without acquiring an ample coating on one's shoes and trousers...