Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worldling. The plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite of her almost immediate attachment to the young proprietor of a dog store whom she meets while taking a walk. The threat to these somewhat incredible proceedings is supplied by Miss Wong, Raft's Chinese sweetheart. If it is not much of a threat the fault is less hers than a role which gives her half a dozen lines and a fake Oriental dance as her total assignment...
...Raymond Burke whose New Deal eulogies were feelingly quoted by President Roosevelt at Green Bay, over Republican Robert Simmons after a series of ten public debates; in Nebraska. Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg over Democrat Frank A. Picard, descendant of French acrobats, who accused his opponent of trying to walk a tightrope on the New Deal; in Michigan. Farmer-Laborite Senator Henrik Shipstead for his third term; in Minnesota. Republican-Democrat-Progressive-Commonwealth Hiram Johnson, over a lone Socialist; in California. Democratic Senator Royal S. Copeland over an "Arrow-collar" Republican and Socialist Norman Thomas; in New York. Democratic Senator...
Early next morning Ellen was home and her "prostrate" mother was protesting: "They were out driving." To put an end to Ellen's drives, McAdoo & Neblett next confiscated her car. Retorted Ellen: "I can walk. And I will walk...
Recreation time for the men prisoners of New York County Penitentiary came one cheerful morning last week. A guard at the end of the long recreation room, through whose windows the sun laid a pattern of bright stripes, watched the frowzy prisoners shuffle from their cells to walk, talk, or to shoot dice for cigarets & candy...
...Nashville, a delegation headed by Mayor Hilary Howse was waiting to greet the Senator & party. Waving away six automobiles provided to take them to Capitol Square, where a crowd was waiting for a speech, Huey Long crisply announced: "We'll walk." On the way he stopped to order his bandleader to play "Alexander's Ragtime Band"; to seize a pretty brunette from the sidewalk crowd, make her march between himself and the Mayor. At the War Memorial Building, Senator Long led the university's 125-piece band, made a speech expressing his thanks for the reception. During...