Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pomp was lavished on these foreign envoys. Housed in sleeping cars in a Nürnberg freight yard, they shared a crude drawing room, had to walk down the tracks for their baths. Only official recognition of their presence was a tea with Hitler at which the Führer moved among the tables, chatting with them. Night before envoys of the U. S., Britain and France arrived, toucan-beaked Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels gibed that democracies were "stupid cows going to the slaughter house...
Like The New Yorker's talented one-time lead-off man, E. B. White (TIME, Aug. 16), James Thurber is no longer a member of the staff, is wandering quietly through Europe. Master of the familiar, walk-do-not-run-to-the-exit style, Funnyman Thurber writes with a sad, lucid patience perfectly matched by his underdone drawings. For bringing earnest balloons to earth or dissolving reason in a clap of blankness, James Thurber has few contemporary equals. Nervous himself, he evidently has lost patience with the recent deluge of small volumes popularizing psychiatry. The series...
...Channel Islands off the coast of England, George Abell, onetime society editor of the Washington Daily News, had been living with his five-year-old son Tyler. He sent the child out for a walk with his nurse. Down from the sky slipped an airplane carrying his onetime good friend, Washington Columnist Drew Pearson and Mrs. Pearson, divorced wife of Mr. Abell, mother of the child. They had followed Mr. Abell from the U. S. when they learned he had left through Canada contrary to a court order giving him six months custody of Tyler...
...league baseball has no such deep-rooted "the-show-must-go-on" tradition as exists in the theatre, for one reason because baseball's cast changes every day. So when Gomez started to walk out onto the field last week to warm up for the game he was scheduled to pitch against the Senators, the Yankees' bulky manager, Joe McCarthy, approached him with a sympathetic look on his face and a telegram in his pocket, told him that his mother was dead. "You don't have to pitch today, fella," said McCarthy. ''Your time...
...Walk through our walks at Ocean Grove...