Word: lampposts
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...passage in the picture is the long slow crescendo of comedy in which four hard-eyed, ten-year-old gamblers squat in an empty lot, whistle at passing pedestrians, and make book on which of them will look around, forget where he is going and crash into the nearest lamppost...
...summer evening filled with the cry of locusts, an evening as calm as the shirtsleeved men watering their lawns in the gentle half-light. A streetcar makes its metallic groan on a curve and disappears trailing sparks like blue fireflies; chanting children play in the circling glow of a lamppost. And when it grows dark, there are more quiet stars in the sky than there will ever be again...
...theater smoking room. From then on, Hayhanen, Abel and a few underlings passed information and money to one another by using a variety of Hitch-cocky gimmicks. The agents slipped their material into hollowed-out coins, flashlight batteries, pencils and bolts, left them in such courier drops as a lamppost, phone-booth seats, cracks in concrete staircases...
...Neill. A few years before he died in 1953, O'Neill was sent a photograph of his bygone birthplace, then a family hotel, since razed. In his thank-you note, the prize-laden (a Nobel and four Pulitzers) dramatist quipped about a figure, leaning against a lamppost in the picture's foreground, having "a bun on," was moved to reminisce: "In the old days, when I was born, a man−especially one from Kilkenny−went on a five-year drunk and finished by licking four cops, and then went home to raise hell because dinner...
...balconies draped with black "for mourning"; French men and women stonily turned their backs as his car swept by. A crowd was waiting for him at the war memorial in the city's center. At sight of the Premier, it broke into an angry roar. "Mollet to the lamppost!" rose the shout, and the crowd became...