Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon this inconvenient idea had been talked down, but later, just as the Act was about to pass second reading who should walk into the House, fresh and elated from a splendid dinner, but the Rt. Hon. Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, big and sportive as a dancing bear,' clad in evening clothes of sleekest cut?and obviously spoiling for a Parliamentary fight...
...Paris last week a member of the Prince of the Asturias' suite explained: "The cure was nothing mystic, not even medical, it was merely exercise. As you know, his Royal Highness could scarcely walk two years ago. For fear that he might stumble and cut himself he was kept as much as possible in a sitting or recumbent position...
Next day President Hoover broke his customary routine by taking a two-mile walk through the downtown streets of Washington. After breakfast he signed "with particular satisfaction" the Rivers & Harbors Bill (see p. 19) and issued a proclamation: "Whereas public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened . . . to consider and determine whether the advice and consent of the Senate shall be given to the ratification of a treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armaments signed at London . . . Now, therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare...
...moral fibre: ". . . its founders . . . sought to live in the things of the spirit. They put first things first, They set small store on the things that are temporal but strove mightily for the things that are eternal. If this nation is to endure, we shall have to continue to walk by their light...
...Dressed in silk hat and long-tailed coat he approached Girard College, Philadelphia, to give an address. Explained the watchman, barring Dr. Wiley: "Stephen Girard laid down in his will that no minister of the Gospel be permitted to enter these grounds." Dr. Wiley: "The hell you say!" Watchman: "Walk right...