Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...songs they had marched to almost 30 years ago-"After the Ball," "Just as the Sun Went Down," "Goodbye Dolly Gray." On the sidewalks girls cheered and threw flowers just as other girls had once thrown flowers to soldiers who, instead of waving, had spit tobacco juice on the pavement. The Maine. Almost 30 years ago, in theatres, in parks, in fairgrounds a thousand brass bands played "Dixie" and a song that started, "Spain, Spain, Spain, you ought to be ashamed. . . ." People sang the words and waved their caps; the whole country was talking about a terrible thing that...
...Flaherty, willing to comply with the customs of a strange land, gave the policeman 8% schillings, received a receipt, and then vented his feelings by throwing the receipt upon the pavement...
...something other than liquor," said Judge Louis H. Burns of the U. S. District Court in New Orleans, to the Prohibition agent who arrested one John Masera. When Mr. Masera was accosted on the street by the Prohibition agent, he had quickly smashed his bottle of liquor on the pavement. Judge Burns dropped the charges against Mr. Masero without hearing any defense testimony...
...unfair for our flyers to get all the glory while those poor Frenchmen [Captains Nungesser & Coli] are dead," said Joseph Lewis, 39, Negro, as he stood poised on a window sill of his fifth-floor apartment in Manhattan. Then he jumped, died on the pavement below. Mr. Lewis' sister said that he had been melancholy for several weeks...
Several days ago, while at my occupation of driving a cab, I was engaged in making change for one of my fares. TIME dropped from my pocket and opened itself on the pavement at the feet of my customer. He looked, brightened and increased my tip from ten cents to one dollar. TIME is irresistible...