Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city of Washington presents more striking contrasts than most towns. Take a ride with me around the city for a few hours. Walk into the Mayflower Hotel with me, and be jostled by a delegate of the American Historical Association Convention, or the more provincial delegate from a national convention of undertakers who thinks that "the new Supreme Court Building would make a swell funeral parlor...
...decide to ride through the streets of old Georgetown, and you are astounded at the change in appearance. You note handsome old houses, through which you can walk on the payment of a small sum. You note the narrow streets, the slower pace, the rusty iron gates, the old warehouses on the river-front. You journey out Conduit Road along the old canal, and you are haunted with the scenes of your history books. If you're an extrovert you may think of what the Industrial Revolution really meant...
...quiet of the ampitheatre, of the Unknown Soldier, farther up the road. If you journey around to the front and to the tomb, a strange feeling will come over you that makes you want to block the path of the guarding soldier in order to see whether he will walk around you or pass unseen right through your body...
...bowled them down. When Counsel Reilly's "50" witnesses turned out to be a bare dozen, he loudly cried "intimidation!" Prosecution officials replied that when they put their investigators on the trail of some characters scheduled to appear for Counsel Reilly, the would-be witnesses discreetly chose to "walk out" on the defense...
From this point on the worship of the franc dominates the book as it dominated the books of Balzac. Marlise gets an esthetic pleasure out of contemplating her swelling revenues. She cannot walk down a road of Pargny without reflecting that so much of her money is in such-and-such a field, or house, or shop, for she has become the fond owner of a grand assortment of mortgages. When Aime, the growing son, shows that he is a dreamer. Marlise contemptuously excludes him from any knowledge of her own little private banking business. Warned that Aime will...