Word: street
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's Loop was clogged with honking automobiles and pushing shoppers; the Indianapolis street railway had to put every last car in service to handle the great crowds, and Seattle had one of the biggest downtown traffic jams in history...
...York adventures began, after five days of entertainment in Washington (TiME, Nov. 28), as he rode from the Battery to City Hall in an open car (drawing a street crowd of 200,000 and a flattering paper shower) to receive an official reception from Mayor William O'Dwyer. In 72 hours he spoke at three banquets and three luncheons, paid post-midnight calls on a series of nightclubs, went to three museums, visited the Arab library at Princeton University and inspected the pressrooms of the Newark News...
Bullfight. The sense of an approaching climax kept feelings high. Liberals flocked to Carrera Septima, Bogota's main street, and defied the government ban on demonstrations by gibing at the police and cheering for their party. One enthusiast amused the crowd by making bullfight passes with his coat at a clumsy young policeman charging him with a rifle butt. The cop finally fired from the hip into the air; the torero and his aficionados fled...
Squatting on its bent axles on Mill street between Lowell and Winthrop Houses is a 1931 Buick Phaeton that is worth its weight in 1950 Cadillacs, according to owner Michael S. Post...
...members are Miss Miriam Ginsburg, of Worcester and Moors Hall; Mrs. Margaret Kivelson, of New York and Cambridge; Miss Virginia Ogden, of Larchment, New York, and Briggs Hall; Miss Helon Osterman, of New York and 55 Garden Street; and Miss Joan Stolper, of New York and Saville House...