Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nutley, N. J., a Mrs. Edward Kohler strolled along the sidewalk, leading her small daughter Marion, aged 5. Coming to a street crossing, Mrs. Kohler stepped off the sidewalk; an automobile struck her gently and knocked her flat...
...sick, mangled and dead people have been brought into the admitting ward. Since 1902 the number has been 1,442,747. Another 1,750,000 have gone in for minor injuries. When an amateur writer shot Novelist David Graham Phillips in 1911, an ambulance took the body from a sidewalk near the old Princeton club and carried it to the admitting ward...
Sixteen East Gay Street is a picture of a street in Columbus, Ohio. Several people are walking along the sidewalk and a pair of children are fixing a tricycle. In the space between the two houses across the street the sky slants a light on the asphalt, and makes the leaves of the trees as bright as coins. It is late afternoon; in the golden twilight everything seems very quiet. If you look at the picture long enough, the man sitting on the porch will fold up his paper and go in to have supper...
...meantime, there is nought but a sordid hole in the sidewalk with a row of vesper lanterns being burnt as an offering to the soul of the departed and, as Bob remarked, looking at the upturned cage with its iron spikes, "to save the boys pants from being torn on Saturday nights...
...vexed. He waited outside the club. When, some hours later, young Señor Calles stepped forth and entered his motor car, Policeman Romero fired upon him with a heavy army revolver. Strong men seized Policeman Romero from behind, as he continued to fire, bore him to the sidewalk. But already Señor Calles had slumped down in his seat...