Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esley '28 testified that officer Walsh, patrolling the sidewalk after the students had withdrawn into the yard, said to them "Come on out, you cowards, hiding behind Harvard College Yard...
...Trust, attracted a crowd. Patrolman Murphy, on duty at the Square, intervened, and started to lead the men away. The crowd followed the officer, and in a good natured manner, interfered with the arrest. The taxi which the officer commandeered, was first held up, and later pushed to the sidewalk...
Other N. Y. Newspapers. The "regular" newspapers were like urchins sliding down an icy sidewalk who suddenly behold a garbage pail at the bottom of the hill. Having filled their columns with the same sort of thing before, they now found it too late to stop. The tabloids, moreover, had made of the Brownings "news" which newspapers could not, they felt, afford to omit. The Hearst Journal was willing enough, nay, eager, to rush its leading staff members to the trial, including saccharine Nell Brinkley who discovered a "lesson to mothers" for the front page. But the editor...
Half the people in Chicago were jammed on the sidewalk in front of the People's Gas Building. Upstairs, in the office of the baseball commission, Charles ("Swede") Risberg, banned shortstop, told how Detroit threw a series of games to the Chicago White Sox in 1917. He spoke for an hour and five minutes, repeating, in front of the 29 famed players he accused of giving and taking bribes, the charges he had already expressed to Judge Landis. The baseball commissioner listened with a foxlike expression. He had on a wing collar and he chewed a derelict cigar. Sometimes...
...arose within him. The doctors said: "Ulcers of the stomach." In the Mercy Hospital "Paddy" Carr suffered, writhed and dreamed. Perhaps he visioned a spunky newsboy laughing in spite of the stench sf the Union Stock Yards, a lumber shover on a schooner coming up; the Chicago River, a sidewalk inspector with ambition, an alderman whose jokes were understandable, a county treasurer who did not annoy the people, a sheriff-elect who was dying...