Word: downtown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia told off his police, later snarled to reporters: "I didn't carry any medals down to Police Headquarters." It turned out that Lepke had strolled the streets of New York City for two years, had done some drinking "downtown," disguised only by 20 pounds of fat and a thin black mustache...
...Johnstown Flood was the big U. S. news when Robert Charles Watson and his twin brother, William George, each five-foot-four, alike as two Dromios, set out from home one summer morning in 1889 to look for their first jobs. They met at noon at "Four Corners" in downtown Rochester, N. Y. Rob had landed a $10-a-month job as messenger for the Rochester Trust & Safe Deposit Co. Bill had a $10-a-month job as messenger for the Commercial National Bank...
Smartest of the Nolan promotions are four parking lots, away from the business district, where Detroiters can park their cars for 15?, go downtown and back for another 15?, save parking troubles downtown. Another good one is a New Year's Eve service for drunks: D.S.R. busses deliver tipsy roisterers to their front doors...
...drives madly, with band music going full blast on the radio of his car. He keeps time by jumping up and down in his seat and pounding on the knee of his companion. When he crashed into a police car in downtown Seattle, he jumped out and began dressing down the cops, threatening to have them fired. His face was cut and he had a broken collarbone, and all the time he was taking pictures...
...owned an automobile. (Old Indiana friends say that when he did try driving an automobile he was a menace, always arguing over his shoulder, frequently letting go the wheel to gesture with both hands.) Between his apartment on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue and his office on narrow, downtown Pine Street he uses subways and taxicabs...