Word: walts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown is slick, suave, smooth, poker-faced. He smiles instead of laughs. As trustee of the Lucas County Children's Home, he is called "Uncle Walt" by its young inmates. Foods and their preparation fascinate him. He has an almost feminine passion for cooking. He refuses to eat a strawberry that has touched water. A Harvard graduate, he is 60, below medium height, dark of hair, slow to wrath...
...broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal Walt Whitman...
Madcap though he may have seemed, Bennett made the Herald thrive. In the '70s and early '80s, it had the best staff of reporters and editors in the U. S. Mark Twain and Walt Whitman wrote for it. The decline of the Herald began when the late Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst entered the New York field as competitors, with the World and the American, respectively...
...Walt" Chrysler was a Kansas boy. Mr.Chrysler Sr. sat at the throttle of a Union Pacific locomotive and made his home at Ellis, Kan., where the railroad had some shops. Young Walt worked as a chore-boy at the grocery store. He hated the little wagon he had to deliver bundles in. When he was 17 he got into the Union Pacific shops as an apprentice, glad of 5? per hour pay and a chance to learn something...
...those days, 35 years ago, a machinist had to know not only how to use his tools but how to make them, if necessary. Mechanical engineering became young Walt Chrysler's life, not his profession. After a year he was able to make the model steam engine which he still shows to his friends. When he was earning 7½? per hour he wanted a shotgun; so he made that...