Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis," she explained to a newshawk. "First I became blind. . . . Now my eyes are better, and my knee is worse The doctor says I will be able to walk again. . . . Doctors always tell you that." Pursing a cramped smile, she mumbled "Please tell them that Eva Tanguay is all right. Or say nothing-that's better. Say that I will be back on the stage, if you want-back by Christmas...
...flakes melting before they touched the sidewalks. The Vagabond busy as the squirrels in the Yard, leafing through his Chaucer, reading J. Q. Adams: "Chief Pre-Shakespearian Dramas," (Shakespearian always looks wrong after a year of Kitty's Shakespere), listening to Crane Brinton in History 34a, taking a brisk walk along the Charles, breathing October...
...over Woodbridge, Hungarian housewives were soon gabbling in terror. According to the New York Times, doors and windows were locked & barred. The Times reported that Mrs. Czinkota had been observed to "change herself into a horse and walk on her hind legs," and that she had also caused "horns to appear on her head." The New York Post, too, printed a special dispatch from Woodbridge. The Postman heard a woman say that one night she had seen the witch "dressed in the skin of an animal, with a stream of fire over her head." The New York Sun reported...
While first-night crowds jostled London bobbies outside the Adelphi Theatre, behind the curtain the milling cast of Trans-atlantic Rhythm threatened a walk-out unless Producer James Paul ("Jimmy") Donahue Jr., 23-year-old 5-&-10? heir, paid their back salaries. Though she claimed she was owed $7,250 herself, up sprang Mexican Actress Lupe Velez, crooned Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life to the fretful chorines, persuaded them to put on the $110,000 revue without pay. The show...
...WALK AFTER JOHN KEATS-Nelson S. Bushnel-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Novel piece of literary sleuthing in which the author retraces every mile of the jointly-documented, 650-mile walking tour taken by John Keats and a friend in the summer of 1818. The path led Author Bushnel (who was weighed down with a load of maps, books and Keats's diary) over the hills of North England and Scotland and over trails overgrown with shipyards and factory districts that were not there when Keats made...