Word: walts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cowhand, knew Billy the Kid, outsmarted Old Man Chisum, was a storekeeper, justice of the peace, postmaster, road supervisor, once arranged to have Colorado City, Tex. shot up in his honor when his fortunes stood high. Now he travels from one auto tourist camp to another, looks like Walt Whitman, cherishes a grandiose plan to have grand canals built on both sides of the Continental Divide to save the Old West and solve the unemployment problem...
Serving on the county grand jury in Portland, Ore. was small, spry Elias Disney, 77-year-old father of famed Walt (Mickey Mouse) Disney. Said he: "We are very proud of Walter, especially when he's a good boy. . . . How did he get started drawing? Well, he always liked to draw. There was a barber in our neighborhood who used to give Walter 25? a week for a picture, something about his barbershop. Walter was seven or eight years old then. He paid for his haircuts that way. . . . Walter is a poor hand to write. We just hear from...
...Walt Whitman, Poet Benét experiences further difficulty explaining the present to the questioning spirit from the past. When Whitman asks, "Is it well with these States?" the poet's troubled answer...
...convert the sprawling, striving, ugly U. S. to the cult of beauty. The U. S. was more interested in the killing of Jesse James, the trial of Guiteau, who shot President Garfield, the arrival of Lily Langtry, "the Jersey Lily." But Wilde did find two things to admire: Walt Whitman and the Rocky Mountains. He took the jibes of the Press in silence, but once he sent for the writer of a particularly outrageous story, asked him how much he had been paid for it. When the newshawk replied: "Six dollars," Oscar drawled, "Well, the rate for lying...
Colorado Springs, at the foot of Pikes Peak, looked forward this week to a cultural renaissance. Due to arrive were such Eastern artistic notables as Painter Walt Kuhn, Manhattan Dealer Marie Sterner, Collectors A. Conger Goodyear, Thomas Cochran and Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Bliss. In an auditorium in a brand new ivory-colored concrete and aluminum building these, and those residents who like to think of Colorado Springs as "the Boston of the West," were to hear Albert Spalding fiddle, watch Martha Graham dance, hear Soprano Eva Gauthier sing. There was also art to be seen: indigenous paintings of the Southwest...