Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hastened Depression (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Last week Super-Swindler Hatry sat in a cell from which he may emerge in 1944, and the shriveled 83-year-old form of the Acid Drop lay in its grave. Indomitable to the last, Mr. Justice Avory had gone for a chill walk during his Whitsuntide holiday. That night an old friend, the Lord Chief Justice of England, Baron Hewart, called and as a precaution ordered two hot water bottles and personally tucked the Hanging Judge into bed. Sometime during the night he rolled off onto the floor, was found next morning entangled...
...there. He could speak no Russian but they had finally decided that he must be an American. Sure enough, it was Ernest Elmer Baker, dressed up in an old Red Army uniform. He had worked his way to Rotterdam, jumped ship with $10 in his pocket, started to walk to Russia. He had no passport because to get one he would have had to swear an oath, which his religion forbade. Time & again German and Polish authorities had clapped him into jail, but Ernest Elmer Baker always got out and kept on walking. Soviet frontier guards had finally picked...
...raters. Full-page advertisements appeared in Los Angeles newspapers announcing that Safeway would pay standard prices for butter, bacon, sugar, shortening and a long list of other items which other grocers were offering as "loss leaders." This meant that housewives could buy "loss leaders" at cut-rate stores, walk around the corner and sell them at a profit to Safeway. Merchandise began pouring into Safeway Stores a few minutes after the early editions carrying the announcement hit the street. For Puritan bacon sold by competitors at 18? per Ib. Safeway was offering 34? for 3-lb. Crisco tins, 54? against...
Painters are traditionally articulate; Walter Pach more so than most. His father, founder of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, was official photographer to the Metropolitan Museum of Art since its founding. The child crawled on the Museum's floors before he could walk, squinting observantly up at the walls. His nickname was first "Rabbits," because he raised them, then "Piney," because his hair bristled. In 1907 he went to Paris, saw a Matisse painting, "felt a blow between the eyes." He began to fight the battle of modern art, helped organize the famed Armory Show...
...Introduction to the Study of Medieval Versions of the Story of Troy or such moral treatises as The Life Everlasting and The Farther Shore, Professor Griffin can always drop in on friends of the Harvard faculty, or listen to the Glee Club sing in the Yard, or walk along the river...