Word: storefronts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funeral among the teeming, pushcart-crowded slums of lower Manhattan, Cardinal Spellman himself sent his representative. There were priests representing many Catholic orders, and there were laymen rich & poor from places as far away as Chicago. All night long before the funeral they had come to the rickety storefront where the body lay, to say a prayer or touch their rosaries to the folded hands. For many of them were sure that Peter Maurin was a saint...
...slim, dark-haired youth, minus a leg, wheeled himself in, then hopped nimbly up & down steps on crutches. "You probably read about Harold in the papers," said Deaver. "He's the boy who was smashed against a storefront by an automobile last fall, the day after he joined the Marines. When the surgeons amputated, I told them, 'Just give me six inches of stump below the knee; that's all I want.' When he gets his artificial leg, you won't know he has a disability...