Word: barefootedness
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Last week President and onetime Physician Hertzog was calmly prescribing for the colds of palace callers. The barefooted Indians still swarmed unconcerned past the palace windows. Cracked Juan Pacheco, a cholo fruit vendor: "I know nothing about this mess, but all politicians are cut with the same scissors. They would...
It took Gibbon's imagination to flood Pannini's wide, quiet ruins with the roaring tide of history: "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter . . . the idea of writing the decline and fall...
As evening falls, the potato seekers drift back to the Autobahn. Some have full knapsacks; others are emptyhanded. A father and three daughters wave down a passing American car. They are filthy. For two days they have tramped across plowed fields, barefooted, to save their shoes. They have had one...
At 10:30 one morning, some 30 barefooted, play-suited wives and daughters of Senators and Representatives answered the roll at the Congressional Club. They listened to a short health and diet talk by Mrs. Lodge, then followed her, in their various ways, through a strenuous hour of health dancing...
Soon, "with the help of large-hearted students," Yogananda built his first U.S. GHQ: the Self-Realization Fellowship, near Los Angeles. Favored disciples-such as his barefooted, youthful American secretary, Mr. Wright; and Miss Ettie Bletch, "an elderly lady from Cincinnati" -accompanied the master on triumphal speaking tours. Another group...