Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which gripped her stocking as she wrestled, dragged it half off. For a moment she balanced, storklike, on a single strut, then, with a yelp, fell face forward into the tar. A dozen men ran to her. With a jerky, united effort they dragged her to the sidewalk...
...near riot ensued in which the three CRIMSON news editors who happened to be in the building put 43 lampoon amateurs to shame. Peace was not restored, however, before the blood of the misguided humorists had been spattered indecently over the facade of the building and on the sidewalk. The cringing pseudo-comic mudslingers then retired to their funny little bungalow on Mount Auburn Street, carrying most of their wounded with them...
Architect Harry Allen Jacobs outlined a plan for furnishing Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, with a double-decked sidewalk, supported by imposing columns, whereby the lower sidewalk could be narrowed to give more room to traffic. On elaborate charts hung here and there, the future of London, Manchester, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, the City of Mexico and wherenot were delineated...
...property in question consists of a rather large vacant lot directly back of the Brock Building. This piece of land is large enough to accommodate a good-sized theatre, and space is available for an entrance tunnel to the sidewalk of Massachusetts Avenue just north of the "Splendid" cafeteria. This entrance tunnel would, however, necessitate the removal of one or two of the stores which now occupy that block...
Between those two nights were many tumbles, shuffles; Weber and Fields clogged in dime museums, warbled for sidewalk audiences, galooted in saloons for $2 a day and 3 beer checks, toured with variety troups. Pages of their jocular maudlinity fill the book...