Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Previously the exuberant collegiates had engaged in a contest of throwing each other's clothes out of the window to the sidewalk. Soon after their loap from the first-floor window, their uncharitable host locked up for the night, leaving them the objects of a water barrage from Lowell and Leverett...
...course-taught me how to duck. And who should know better how to teach anybody to duck than Jack Dempsey? After that, I don't know what happened. ... I suddenly looked around and there was Bill Wright, the sweetest man that God ever made, lying on the sidewalk, all bloodied. . . . They took us over to the police station. And then I want to tell you that the sweetest thing that ever has happened in my life happened right then. I looked up and there was Sherman Billingsley and Mac from '21' standing there with $5,000 cash...
...brushed aside a tousled, screeching head bent upon chalking the sidewalk, the Vagabond observed to himself how Byron Piccup had made into a college-worthy art are what most men had always considered an instinct...
Veteran theatre people and veteran theatre goers will particularly relish the venality, innocence, hope and cynicism of such a character as Gordon Miller (Sam Levene), who once produced a great show on a sidewalk between two No Parking signs and is now trying like a man possessed to produce another from a double room in the White Way Hotel. His initial handicap lies in the fact that he has already run up a bill for $1,200 and is about to be evicted. Lacking costumes and scenery, his cast starving, his author (Eddie Albert) about to be lured by another...
...three behind) was dedicated in that city by Mrs. Ross. Covering a city block bounded by Buchanan, Hermann, Webster and Duboce Streets, the box-shaped mint squats on the scalped dome of live rock which made that block a real-estate liability until the Government took it. From the sidewalk visitors must climb 175 steps to the huge sliding bronze front door where bas relief dollars two feet wide greet them. A storage and assay depot as well as a mint, the new building began last week to receive some $400,000,000 in gold and silver from the smoke...