Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Dictator will open on a European battlefront in 1912, with Charlie shouldering arms for Ptomania (variant: Bacteria) against the "Alliars." After a series of Chaplinesque trench experiences, Charlie returns home to Ptomania's capital Ptom, soon finds everything being run by a little cock-of-the-walk named Hinkle. When "Furor" Hinkle appears, all cry Hail and even dachshunds must raise their legs. Hinkle's sidekick is Dictator Mussemup of Ostrich, an egomaniac who stops traffic when he wants to tell a dirty joke...
...Secretary of Agriculture in developing hybrid seed corn (through Pioneer Hi-Bred Seed Co., originally the Wallace family's), which increases yields 10 to 20%. In corn-growing Iowa, 79% of this year's acreage was planted with yield-increasing seed. Lately Henry Wallace on his daily walk to his office in Washington has taken to stopping in Washington Monument grounds to practice with a boomerang for exercise. But he never threw a better boomerang than his own hybrid seed, whose production economies and improved yield are no consolation to hopelessly overcapacitated corn farmers...
...child's soul, says Dottoressa Montessori, develops through a series of "sensitive periods"-times when it has a preternatural bent to learn such things as walking, talking. These periods must be recognized by parents; the child must be allowed to take utmost advantage of them. Babies of 1½ years old, says she, can walk more than a mile if they are allowed to select their own pace. Other dicta...
...Bronx doctor who said he had examined Mrs. Geraci seven years ago declared she had been afflicted with "flip walk," result of flaccid paralysis. At week's end no physician had publicly attested her foot healed...
...many a sentimental reader, the books of Novelist Harold Bell Wright (The winning of Barbara Worth, The calling of Dan Matthews) made many a dream seem to get up and walk. Last week the aged author's solemn son Gilbert went his father one better: he made real people talk like waterfalls, braying donkeys, barking dogs, slamming doors, locomotive whistles. The appropriate place: Hollywood...