Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patrick Kearney, who wrote the first two acts of the play, was consistent enough to be frankly and fearfully melodramatic. The cast is scattered through the theatre in reckless, impertinent profusion and the technique of The Miracle and murder mysteries is carried so far as to include a sidewalk revival meeting before the final...
...Sidewalk slang for "bogus," "artificial," "untrue...
...Until 2:00 and 3:00 o'clock each morning, taxicabs with their doors held open like traps, line lower Broadway's sidewalk, to carry night workers away. Hornblower & Weeks, stock market brokers, at Easter gave their heavily worked clerks two weeks extra pay. A fortnight ago the company repeated the bonus. Luke, Banks & Weeks, another brokerage house, divided a day's brokerage commissions among their clerks. Other houses have dealt as handsomely...
...mechanistic ripple like the swift succession of a hundred thousand railroad ties. A train shoots out of the country and into BERLIN in hard, square letters. It is 5 a. m. A sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open. The tempo increases. People thicken the streets and the subways. It is 8 a. m. A hand seizes an electric switch. Machinery gleams...
Then he arose and stood gazing up at the sidewalk level, where hundreds of feet could be seen as they passed the window. He pointed to one seedy pair of Legs, sauntering by on broken shoes. "There, but for the grace of God, stand I," he murmured. Suddenly he swung around and began to talk, crossing and recrossing the office at a single stride...