Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chilled are my hands, he thought, as he stuffed them in his coat. Oh, Lord, what is the matter with me? Here I walk in dejected silence, and over there, not twenty yards away, laughter plays...
...simply inverting the machine, the animate propeller may walk either up or down hill without decreasing the efficiency and relieving the monotony...
...Mammon showers him with gold, distracts him with a nasty number named Lily, wins him from his garret with commissions to paint a portrait of Mrs. Colfax-Baxter, a study in oils of Mr. Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When wife (Rosalind Russell) and crony (Robert Benchley) walk out on him, taking much of life's beauty and all of its humor back to Washington Square, Painter Montgomery hits the skids. Near bottom his eye lights on a ghetto lad selling flowers. He collars him, explains to the boy's dubious mother that he wants...
...life and property stands at a low ebb; offices that once attracted the finest men in the Commonwealth will be doled out to political parasites, barnacles on the Ship of State. The old order changeth not, and if Diogenes should come to Boston he would have a long, weary walk...
...students must cut corners and tread on the grass, the Maintenance Department will put in a walk for them. During the past week workers have been putting in an asphalt path to run from Lehman Hall, under the "spreading beech tree," to intersect the walk entering the Yard from Massachusetts Avenue...