Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together and had a high old time by the way. From Serena's children (a not very attractive crowd), from Serena herself. Redfield gradually came to the terrible conclusion that she was just a scheming, selfish, salacious old wench. The End of Desire, Author Herrick's 23rd pedestrian book, is serious, well-meant, may point out to middle-aged adolescents some pitfalls of the dangerous age but will not advance the cause of U. S. letters very much...
Earlier in the week Fascist brownshirts invaded Berlin's Jewish quarter, shouting: "Down with Judea!" Having jostled a Jewish pedestrian, they were chased by a Jewish mob, read in the evening papers that Leader Hitler had exhorted his followers that very day in Munich thus...
...Factories closed. There were many in Havana last week who insisted that open revolution would now be under way and President Machado possibly be in exile were it not for the alertness of Patrolman Melvin of Atlantic City, N. J., and the sensitive nose of a New York City pedestrian...
Fortnight ago the pedestrian with the sensitive nose passed a rooming house on East 45th Street at the moment when Truckman Edward Wetzenberger was hoisting a large trunk from the sidewalk. The garageman smelled ether. He quickly telephoned the police station, "A man's carrying a trunk with a body in it out of a house here!" Detectives Elmer Mason and Rudolph McLaughlin climbed into their speedy little black Ford, rushed to the address in time to follow Mr. Wetzenberger's truck to a warehouse on East 41st Street. A Cuban broker by the name of Jorge...
...affair. The young Mask & Wiggers seemed incapable of brushing aside the influence of their stodgy elders, projecting an atmosphere of good-natured undergraduate fun across the footlights. Saving grace of the performance was Thomas Gihon Jordan '31, the heroine's melancholy, faithful dog. The music was unbelievably pedestrian, inferior to that of this year's Harvard Hasty Pudding Show, Bulls & Belles. It could not compare with the Princeton Triangle Show's "Something In the Air" or "On a Sunday Evening" (TIME, Dec. 29), which Bandmaster Guy Lombardo broadcasts. In the matter of dancing, however, Mask...