Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single Chinese province of Anhwei, 250 miles remote from Nanking, 3,000,000 Chinese were last week reported starving. "It is distressing to walk the streets these days with misery and Death everywhere," reported George Birch, China Inland Mission worker. "Two-thirds of this area is without food and the remainder is approaching the same condition. I hear such things as five of a family of seven starved to death. A man climbed a hill to cut fuel and fell dead. Women with babies, exhausted and despairing, laid down to die." *The President's adopted son, James Lin, postgraduates...
...pleasant to walk airily up Holyoke Street these brisk spring mornings, once again convinced that the world is essentially round, and its Creator in His appointed place. Humming a measure or two from Mendelssohn, one crosses Mt. Auburn Street, headed Yard-wards. But as one's gaze falls on the new University Parking Place, the smile of joy is likely to vanish from one's face...
...Walküre Brünnhilde is a high-spirited amazon, a goddess sired and loved by Wotan who punishes her by making her mortal and banishing her to a rock surrounded by fire. In Siegfried the perfect hero penetrates the flames and Brünnhilde is a woman radiantly in love. In Götterdämmerung the emotional range is so extended that few singers have been able to compass it successfully. In the first act a great Brünnhilde must be tender, exuberantly happy. In the second act bewilderment turns to blazing rage. Under the spell...
...year-old Negro actor was hospitalized for rest. Into the part stepped his understudy and friend of more than 40 years, Charles Winter Wood, 69, longtime teacher at Tuskegee Institute. Understudy Wood had traveled 40,000 mi. with the show since 1930 without having a chance to walk on as "de Lawd." "Hold me up, Charlie, hold me up," admonished Actor Harrison as he left the theatre. "I'll be back in a few days. The world at this time needs this play!" "I'll do my best, Dick," Understudy Wood told "de Lawd...
...pistol just in time to save the Yankee's life and property. The only thing in the show which did not come out of the Ark is Negro Bill Robinson's dancing. He does his celebrated "Climb-the-Stairs" routine and contributes the finest butler's walk that ever reached the screen...