Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watchdog of the nation's finances. (Mr. Morgenthau can never hope to achieve a like benignity; the poetry of yesterday has yielded to prose.) To be a broker was not at that time the equivalent of pauperism, nor were pent-houses merely points of departure for leaps to the pavement below...
...recognize, of course," said the Minister of Transport, "that at first some motorists may, in certain circumstances, sound their horns almost instinctively. ... As a general rule however, if a pedestrian suddenly steps off the pavement in front of a car, the motorist must stop without sounding his horn...
...which included Cinemagnate Jesse Lasky, Producer Max Gordon. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Campbell (Dorothy Parker), cheered itself hoarse after the performance and then adjourned, like most of the cast, to the barroom of the Teller House next door, to which President Grant once made his way over a pavement of silver bricks...
...days thereafter there was peace. The Embarcadero became a No-Man's-Land for strikers. All the steel doors of the docks were flung wide; the Belt Line moved 203 cars; trucks ran back & forth with impunity. Only weapons used by the strikers were chalk and flowers. On the pavement where Sperry and Bordloise had fallen strikers chalked "POLICE MURDER. 2 I. L. A. MEN KILLED, SHOT IN THE BACK" and around the inscription they laid roses and wreaths. A few doors away at the headquarters of the International Longshoremen's Association the bodies of the victims lay in state...
...hours of the day and night between Sever and Fogg, the President's house and the Faculty Club, is not a happy one. It Quincy were shut off completely, Fogg, the Faculty Club, and the Union would be brought into closer contact with the University. If the pavement were torn up and replaced by grass, Quincy Street would eventually appear to be merely an extension of the Yard, and the buildings on the East side would lose their present disconnected aspect...