Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday afternoon the City of Cambridge sent four men in a truck to tear down the temporary sidewalk and spread the gravel. Said the workmen: "It's dangerous. It's a menace...
...Monday the students--Thomas O. Nevison '51, Donald W. Ireland '52, and William V. H. Mason '51--altruistically built a thick gravel sidewalk over the swampland of upper Plympton Street, in front of the Harvard Auto Company...
Next day at 8 a.m. Davis was back. He laid his camping equipment on the sidewalk and got ready for a siege. Presently le panier a salade (the paddy wagon; literally, salad basket) picked him up and hauled him off to the mairie (town hall) of the sixth arrondissement. There he talked things over with urbane André Michel, commissaire of the arrondissement. The conversation went like this...
...Three. He opened the door of a shoe-repair shop, silently entered, and killed Cobbler John Pilarchik with two thunderous shots. The street was still quiet as he got out to the sidewalk again...
Said a waitress: "The tall Russian [Pirogov] was tusseling with two or maybe three men. They had him against a fence. The poker-faced fellow was putting up a terrific fight. You should have seen him rolling on the sidewalk with one of the men. They handcuffed him and the tall...