Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restaurant with a wide Rooseveltian grin on his face. Inside, Jimmy had just made a broadcast announcing that he would run for governor of California. His studio audience surged out behind him, still munching their free ice cream cones, and gathered around to gawk at the show. On the sidewalk a three-piece band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again, a tumbling team cavorted and square dancers twirled in the rosy glow of neon signs. In the midst of it all stood Jimmy, bald, tall and toothpick thin, bending low to pump a hundred hands...
...towers of the Triborough Bridge now float in the sky just beyond their chimneys, and a snare-drum roll of traffic drifts up from the modern East River Drive. Negroes and Puerto Ricans choke the slums to west and north. But the old neighborhood is still Italian. Its sidewalk garbage cans (each with its cover chained to prevent theft), its great, voracious rats, its smells, its endless noise, are the same...
...Princeton game, a reasonable new yellow Ford convertible owned by a student returning from the game was crinkle-fendered by another car at the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn streets. A week later two Malden women were jarred when their car was struck, deflected, and deposited on the sidewalk at the same corner. A few hours later, another car was damaged as it remained stationary at the corner. These accidents represent but three in a long series of traffic mishaps at the confluence of these, streets, an intersection which a police official has termed "one of the worst...
Cambridge workmen arrived on upper Plympton Street at 4 p.m. yesterday and laid a sidewalk over the 12-foot quagmire that the student Society has been fighting since Monday to improve. In doing so, the workers completely covered the dirt-and-stone sidewalk that the students themselves felt forced to build on Monday...
...glad they did it," William Y. H. Mason '51, spokesman for the group, said last night. "When we built our sidewalk we asked the City of Cambridge 'Can you top this?' They've topped it now, and that's what we wanted...