Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warming Up. By 7 p.m. the sidewalk in front of Broadway's garish old Harem club, redecorated and renamed "Bop City," was jammed. Inside, the 40 musicians of Artie's new symphony orchestra were warming up, and so was the tight-packed, sweltering crowd. When the musicians were all tuned up, the master of ceremonies solemnly announced "Mr. Artie Shaw." Artie threaded his way through the orchestra with the nervous pace of a Toscanini...
Across the Bund, down pedicab-jammed Tai Ping Road, Canton's shops and sidewalk stands bulged with everything from leather goods to solid gold rings and brooches. The jewelry, generally regarded as the only remaining safe investment in an inflation area that rivals panicky Shanghai, was selling briskly...
Bank Teller Robert Gibson, an ex-B-29 pilot, was at the lower end of the snorkel, twelve feet down in a cashier's cage beneath the sidewalk. By means of a periscope and a loudspeaker running up through the steel box, he could see and talk with customers at the curb. They could also see him in a periscope mirror in the box and talk back. By dropping their bank books and deposits into an electric dumbwaiter, customers could do their banking in one minute without leaving their cars...
...gallon jug of burgundy fell from the fourth floor of Leverett House yesterday, bounced on the sidewalk, and rolled unharmed into the hands of William V. II. Mason...
Madame Chiang stepped to the sidewalk, hatless, and with her old nutria coat over a long black Chinese dress. She smiled only faintly as flashlights blinked. She started up the steps as soon as Mrs. Marshall got out of the car. The door opened and Stanley Woodward, State Department Protocol Chief, bade the ladies welcome...