Word: 133rd
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...national observatory at Havana announced that there was a big blow brewing in the Caribbean. No one at Belize paid any attention to the warning. Instead, one afternoon last week the citizenry turned out to watch a parade of school children marching in a pageant to celebrate the 133rd year of Honduran independence from Spain. While the children, black and white, with happy faces and stiff white clothes, filed up the sunny street, a whirling havoc of wind was winding up over the southeastern horizon at a deliberate gait of 35 m. p. h. Then the wind increased in velocity...
Among the scrubby frame stores and dwellings of East 133rd Street in the vast, tawdry northern sector of New York City which is called The Bronx, sprawls the low brick structure of a fur dyeing factory, broad, ugly, busy. Beside it runs an alley full of old machinery. Into this alley one afternoon last week drove the factory manager with a $4,619 payroll, guarded by a policeman. Two youths stepped up to the car with drawn automatic pistols. One covered the manager, forced him out of the car, took the payroll. The other sent a bullet through the policeman...
...manager's car the two men sped through East 133rd Street to St. Ann's Avenue, turned north, and continued un challenged, stared at by dwellers of the shabby neighborhood. At 149th Street they abandoned the car, changed to a taxicab, turned into Boston Post Road. At 169th Street a motorcycle policeman opened fire on them. He fell mortally wounded. A fireman picked up the police man's revolver. He, too, was shot down. Another fireman, out driving with his wife and 4-year-old daughter, came into range. All were wounded, the child fatally. Bul lets...