Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Norris had something to do which he considered more important than attending the opening of Congress. All last week, while other Senators were assembling in Washington, in the little town of McCook on the Republican River in Redwillow County, Nebraska, George Norris took his usual walk from his house down to Floyd Hagenberger's barber shop to get his morning shave. From the barber shop he strolled as usual to the real-estate office of Carl Marsh, almost the only one of his cronies of bygone days with whom he still is intimate, for the rest have become...
Last year also there was a complaint that the walk in the morning to the training table for breakfast is too long, and this resulted in cutting out the breakfast training table...
...goodhearted, 65-year-old real estate operator, had a painful, recurring dream. "I dream I am hurrying down a street," he told his brother. "No one's ahead of me. But behind me I hear the sound of running feet. ... I begin to be afraid. I start to walk faster. . . . When I reach the corner, I find the street still stretches before me, deserted, straight. I keep going at top speed. . . . The sound of running feet behind me comes nearer and nearer, I know a hand will touch me in a moment-then I wake...
...Housing Administration is a partial guarantor of modernization loans made by banks under Title I of the National Housing Act, Mike Pecoraro's methods came under Federal scrutiny. His methods were simple. A short, smartly-dressed man with a police record as a forger and thief, Mike would walk into a branch of big National City or Manufacturers Trust, submit an FHA loan application signed by Otto Corneau (or one of 18 other names) with his right hand and the wife's name penned with his left. Then he returned to a rented apartment, waited for and answered...
...still new role of Metropolitan manager, Edward Johnson chose Die Walküre to open his season next week, the first time in 35 years a Wagnerian opera has been first-nighted at the Metropolitan. Artur Bodanzky will be the first-night conductor, but a new conductor has been engaged, Portuguese-born Maurice de Abravanel, and an old one re-engaged, Richard Hageman, who will be on hand to direct the U. S. premiere of his Capon-sacchi. Another U. S. premiere was to be Cimarosa's more-than-a-century-old Secret Marriage. Both operas...