Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milani, with eight colleagues of the Vatican staff and eight consultants, gave the Holy Father a thoroughgoing examination last month, found his condition ''satisfactory for his age." Chief trouble, Vatican attendants admitted, is that the Pope, once a sturdy mountain climber, finds it difficult not only to walk but to breathe easily. In all his daily activities he now is borne about in a sedan chair, or in his ceremonial sedia gestatoria (portable throne). Near the Benediction Hall, where Pius XI holds audiences, there has been set up behind a red curtain a portable washstand and toilet, with...
...completely satisfy the conscientious manufacturer. He gives away footwear to people who are hardest on them-basketball players, garage and creamery workers, fishermen and miners, who will return the goods for examination when well worn. "At times," explained Tester Glancy, "men and young women are hired to walk daily, testing out new types of goods. Such walkers travel over a prescribed course and register at widely separated points to prove that they actually walked. Lastly, there is a group of boys and girls which often numbers 75 who wear test shoes. Once each week they report to have their shoews...
...equity is again built up to 55%. He may substitute one stock for another on a dollar-for-dollar basis. He may buy more stock if he puts up 55% on each purchase, but that stock immediately becomes restricted also. Only way to avoid these complexities is to walk across the street, open another account with another broker...
...much more startling, though it exploded in the headlines with a far louder pop, was the final pre-convention volley fired at the Democratic army by its embittered Lost Battalion. Ever since he proclaimed to the Liberty League and the nation last January that he might "take a walk" at Philadelphia, observers have been waiting for Al Smith to take his first step. He waited until the day before the convention began and then, with Joseph B. Ely, James A. Reed, Bainbridge Colby and onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan for co-signers, released an open telegram...
...learning the meaning as well as the rhythm of "If Your Heart Keeps Right." Related he: "I step up in the dark of the moon in a strange village. I got no guides, no gun bearers, except my little old trombone of the Lord. I slip into Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John, slow at first and then faster . . . and before long, without my asking 'Will you abide with me or sing with me?' they are doing a shuffle and a-humming, repeating just that phrase. Soon they're surprised I got nothing to sell...