Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LAMBETH WALK (Duke Ellington; Brunswick). Theme song of the 1938 summer dance madness, doubtless played more interestingly than it ever was at its point of origin, London...
...high, not low gear. They will know the dangerous effect of automobile radios, "tunnel vision" (inability to see out of the corner of the eye), and thinking about quarrels with one's wife (perseveration). As pedestrians they will be taught to cross at crossings, hold umbrellas high, walk to the left on rural highways and at night to carry a light or something white; as essential adjustments to environment "if the pedestrian of today is not to become too literally 'The Vanishing American...
...restricting picketing. He proposed an ordinance imposing a $50 weekly license fee on anyone who wants to carry a sign on Ridgewood's streets. Penalties: $200 fine or 90 days in jail or both. His argument: while a man's civil liberties give him the right to walk the streets and express himself, the privilege of carrying signs is taxable...
...there in the U. S. and Europe, Frank Hawks had learned a thing or two about landings. He had cracked many a ship in those 20 years. One in 1921 had cost him $200, one last year, $100,000. Such mishaps he took with a grin. "If you can walk away from it," he used to say, "it's a good landing." Once or twice Frank Hawks was unable to walk away-one crash in 1932 put him in the hospital for months and filled his famous smile with store teeth; in another he somersaulted off a line...
Monastic also is Mrs. Ames's talent for smelling out incipient romances, nipping them with subtle but insistent notes. A young novelist, for example, may imagine that his walk with a poetess has gone unobserved. But next morning both parties are pretty sure to receive a cryptic note: "It is unwise to form youthful attachments," or "Sorry you missed an interesting discussion in the parlor." Yaddo is not bothered by rumors that it is a free-love colony. Nonliterary, nonartistic wives and husbands are not usually invited to Yaddo with their mates. Married artist-couples and their children...