Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought all hands up unanimously once more. "Dictatorship . . . involves costs which the American people will never pay . . . spiritual values. . . . The blessed right of being able to say what we please . . . freedom of religion . . . seeing our capital confiscated . . . being cast into a concentration camp. The cost of being afraid to walk down the street with the wrong neighbor . . . of having our children brought up . . . as pawns molded and enslaved by a machine...
...girl who had never attended a White House dance-the guests were mostly youngsters. White wine punch was the official refreshment.* The orchestra was from New York, conducted by Irving ("Yes, We Have No Bananas") Conn. They danced the Eleanor Glide and Virginia Reel as well as the Lambeth Walk. An exciting moment came when Mrs. Roosevelt, leading a reel with her brother, tripped on her train and tumbled over backwards...
Hitler-"What's most important is your first contact with the old man. . . . You begin by awaiting him at the end of your famous office in the Palazzo Venezia. You let him walk 100 meters on a floor more polished than ever. It would be best if he fell down and let his umbrella fall two or three times before reaching...
...point a box used to store sand was overturned, and a free-for-all sand fight started." Now, in their immaturity, these Elis were striking at the very root of two hallowed institutions: the WPA sand pile project and the old New Haven custom of parking on the side-walk...
...group, of which Joseph Prescott 4G, an assistant in English, is the chairman, is attempting to "make obscure plays get up and walk around," while making the study of the drama congenial and amusing. Several men who inquired whether the group's study would be a help in passing their PhD's were unceremoniously dismissed...