Word: street
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last man one would go to for advice as to where to install a new drugstore would be the man with a successful drugstore on the opposite corner of the street from where you think you would like to build your drugstore...
...Columnist Pegler's findings was that in 1922 Willie Bioff was convicted of pandering, got a six-month jail sentence and $300 fine, lost an appeal, served only eight days of his sentence. Reported also were dirty details about a brothel on Chicago's South Halsted Street, including the specific information (from testimony) that on a single day a prostitute named Bernice Thomas received 13 men, through a hired hand passed $29 of her earnings to Willie Bioff...
...Shrove Tuesday in New Orleans. Early on this Mardi Gras morning, before the white folks' Rex comes in splendor to Canal Street, the Negroes are having their own carnival. Up squalid New Basin glides a barge, canopied in sacking, to the wharf at Rampart Street and Howard Avenue. Off the barge strides the King of the Zulus, right royal in black underwear, a hula skirt of sea grass, a tin crown. His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster. Preceding him is his Queen, behind are his capering dukes. The King mounts his throne-a decrepit...
...meeting Browder said, "It was a model of orderliness and afterwards assembled students on the street cheered me on my departure...
Upon motion of Councilor-at-Large John J. Toomey, the Council passed a resolution asking the College to donate a strip of land on the northwest corner of the Yard which would be used in broadening the junction of Kirkland and Peabody Streets. The strip lies between Kirkland Street and Phillips Brooks House, and Peabody Street and Mower Hall...