Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Efforts of the famous driver to park his short-wheelbase car parallel to curb provided amusement. Thrice he made the attempt, once missing the proper angle altogether, second time clashing bumpers with car in rear and third time climbing the curb. Provoked, he backed the rear wheels up to the curb, left front protrude into line of traffic...
...until 8 p. m. A little group of lean, white-haired nobles gathered in the throne room to bid him farewell. Slowly the King passed down the line of Royal Halberdiers. Through a side gate in the garden he stepped, entered his racing car which was waiting at the curb and sped through the city. President Alcala Zamora in a second car accompanied him to the city limits. On a hill overlooking Madrid, Alfonso got out for a moment to look back at the city he was leaving...
...Chicago last week, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone appeared at the Municipal Courthouse to answer a charge of vagrancy, the antique legal device by which loud Judge John Homer Lyle once hoped to curb the city's banditti (TIME, Oct. 13). The officer who had signed the complaint against Scarface admitted that he did not know him, could not swear that the gangster was without legal means of support or "frequented disreputable resorts...
Most of them fled to the mountains, down the dusty roads to Granada, but not all. In the ripped-up streets of Managua little groups knelt in prayer all day before religious statues dragged from the crumbling churches and houses, set up on the curb. Meanwhile Marines and soldiers of the U. S.-officered Guardia Nacional worked till the soles burned off their shoes carrying stretchers, pulling bodies from the wreckage, fighting the flames. In three days after the earthquake more than 800 bodies had been buried or accounted for. But there could be no more burials. Managua was beginning...
...Detroit young Bernard Lotus drank deep of stimulants, then climbed with his girl, into his automobile. During the next few moments he: drove over the curb and took the porch off a house, crumpling his fenders; raced a half block to a garage, drove in, offered to fight the garage-owner; chased his girl, who had then breathlessly departed, but failed to catch her; climbed Dack in his car, drove out of the garage and, speedily, into a parked car owned by one Fred Stoetzer; offered to fight about 50 men who gathered around the accident; offered to fight Stoetzer...