Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Metropolitan Opera changed its policy. began a series of Wagner matinees in which, for the first time in 30 years, the Ring will be given uncut. Not yet have starting times been announced but they are bound to hurry many a patron's luncheon for Die Walküre, unedited yet allowing for only average intermissions, takes approximately four and a half hours to perform, Siegfried four and three quarters, Gotterdammerung five hours or more...
...Newark, N. J. Jubilant, Carnera returned to the Park Plaza Hotel, Manhattan, broke two chairs in his arms as he capered about, pretending they were women he was dancing with, drank 15 bottles of ginger ale, snapping the tin caps off with his fingernails. Next day after a walk he entered the hotel, hurried toward a crowded elevator. "One more," said the starter. Camera (269½ Ib.) got in. The elevator would not move...
Speaking about adventures some of Renarto's are far from tame. He came to this country at the age of fifteen On the night of his arrival he left his shoes on the fire escape: in the morning he had to walk bare-footed to the nearest shoe store. Later when he joined the array, he found out that talking after taps even on Sundays means a stay or two in the guard house The worst of it was that he did not understand the Sergeant the first time and therefore got a double dose...
Lincoln was not a happy man. Said his friend and partner Herndon: "His melancholy oozed from him as he walked." Depression led him into absent-minded habits, so that he would walk through the streets in a trance, laugh at the wrong times, and speak out of turn. Once for two days he neglected his law business while he sat, surrounded by compasses, calculations and rulers, trying to square the circle. He split rails and infinitives with equal ease: when he had written his letter of acceptance of the Republican nomination in 1860, he took it to the Springfield superintendent...
...Walk in Jerusalem Jus' like John...