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Word: sidewalk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Above is a room in a country house decorated to suggest an old sidewalk bar. The walls in scenes of Broadway in 1860 were painted by Louis Bouche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Smartchart | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...relent. She has Jencic take her to the Arcade. But this is only to excite jealousy in Louie, her latest. Dark and dapper, Louie steps up to Jencic, who just stands there like a block of wood, patient and talkative. Louie punches him on the jaw. Sitting on the sidewalk, hulking Jencic looks up with sick eyes, whispering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasant-Citizen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...sidewalk crowds seethed with upperclassmen and "townies" looking for a fight. Scuffles broke out, fists swung, policemen's billies began to descend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Eggs, Billies, Bullets | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...wastepaper baskets full of surgical instruments, rubber devices and index cards in their arms, herded the six women into the patrol wagon. The wagon smelled horribly. The women sat down on its benches. Policemen posted themselves on guard. The wagons growled away, angrily jeered by the women on the sidewalk. Thus was the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (TIME, March 18) raided last week. A policewoman, one Josephine McNamara, mother of two grown children, had reported that the clinic was giving out demoralizing information and advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control Raid | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...diligence, in its proper place. It's nice to sit in a cafe. It's comfortable. The go-getter stops panting. The world resumes its normal shape. You know, I like the way European cities take care of their people. The large parks, the wide boulevards, the sidewalk cafes! Say, it's nice to sit in a cafe and have something. If Prohibition hadn't interfered, California would be the greatest grape-growing region in the world, making better wines than France, and we'd have cafes with little tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Oakland's Mayor | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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