Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...morning last week, neighbors began to arrive as usual to get their mail at Uncle Alex's office, found his door locked. Soon a crowd filled the sidewalk-people who wanted Alexander Alexandroff to deposit their money, or register their deeds, or give them his advice for a fee. By midday the crowd was big, and Mike Sawicki, who repairs umbrellas in the same tenement, called the police. They found Alexander Alexandroff in bed in his back room, dead. One of his many cats was crouched at the window...
Saturday might the Square will know an unaccustomed quiet. No students will be tying up the traffic, or pouring down the subway steps on their way to Boston. The Sidewalk Superintendents' Club will suspend its frequent meetings. Call cards and books will ease up their frenzied shuttling across the Widener delivery desk. Harvard won't really be in Cambridge any more, but will be scattered all over the country. In a crisis, it's a refreshing thing...
...daily traffic jam that tied up the public square. A 300% increase in mail had the post office stumped. Five crews of linemen scrambled and shinnied to make telephone connections. Rushing to finish a much-needed sewage system, WPAsters built street-corner privies which indignant citizens threatened to burn. Sidewalk hawkers with pushcarts turned Charlestown into a Lower East Side. Jam-packed was the town's lone grog shop.-Every night was Saturday night and Saturday night was chaos...
...Harvard Division of the Sidewalk Superintendents Club of America obtained a charter from the original Rockefeller Center organization yesterday and started their drive for membership, promising a party after the first 100 members are signed...
...housemaids. A bomb last week ripped the side wall off a Mayfair mansion of stately appearance, revealed it to have been one of London's most sumptuously equipped bagnios. The walls were covered with erotic frescos rivaling those of Pompeii, and a giggling crowd soon gathered on the sidewalk to ogle the pictures while gruff, prim London bobbies kept growling all day "Move along, there! That's it, move right along...