Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief heard the throat-rasping cheers of early-comers in the stands along the route to the Capitol. The Coolidge silk hat moved up and down in frequent response to this acclamation. The Chief's headpiece moved less frequently. One irreverent youth screamed "Oh you Herbie!" from the sidewalk...
...parade approaches. President Hoover issues from the White House, climbs through the back of a grandstand built over the fence, tulip-bed and sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue. He takes his post in a glassed-in pulpit, to receive and return the salutes of the U. S. People...
...months ago a poor sidewalk artist of Mexico City strolled into the great cafe La Bombilla, and assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
...fact, the original purpose in building the Coffee House was to provide appropriate facilities for the genial institution of "Change." This was a time-honored custom of the merchants to meet on the sidewalk of State Street at about 1 o'clock as they left their counting rooms, and talk shop, ships, and politics for half an hour or so. The whole first story of the ambitious new Coffee House was devoted to a great Exchange Floor, but this probably saw little business, for according to the contemporary account of Caleb Snow, the merchants preferred to follow...
...invention, his "Martian transformer," a device with which one can walk faster and with less effort. It is to be fastened to a walker's back; his strides activate it; it in turn "energizes his nervous system." He may climb mountains with as little effort as walking a sidewalk. A larger machine should enable one to walk "in birdlike flight." U. S. neurologists consider the device's description poppycock...