Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything that would enable the organizers of the demonstration to pose as benefactors of the unemployed." No such thing was said (see below). Souvenir hunters, prowling over the seven-hour battlefield, collected bits of bloody rags, took snapshots of great dark stains before firemen washed them from the pavement of Boniface Street...
Long before the ambulances arrived, Photographer William Eckenberg of the New York Times was scuttling back to his office with what he knew was a picture editor's dream. One of his plates showed the wounded gunman seated on the pavement, the girl clasping his head to her shoulder, the alert hands of policemen and detectives haloing the couple's heads. Police dragged the pair apart before other photographers penetrated the crowd...
...infantry, to the number of 1,000 men began moving into Washington for an encounter with the B. E. F. for which the War Department had long been preparing.* In their wake came five small tanks, a fleet of trucks. Bayonets glittered in the sun, equipment clanked over the pavement as the force marched slowly up Pennsylvania Avenue. Reaching the "affected area" (4:45 p. m.) troopers rode straight into the hooting, booing ranks of the B. E. F. Veterans scrambled out of the way of swinging sabres, trampling hoofs. Steel-helmeted infantrymen with drawn revolvers advanced 20 abreast. Behind...
...side of the black expanse of asphalt. Food was served them afoot, including 1,000 sandwiches contributed by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Up & down his thin column paced Robertson, exhorting his men in a voice croaky with fatigue. Shoes came off, blistered feet padded doggedly on the hot "pavement. After the first all-night march exhaustion threatened to break the line. Robertson detailed relays to keep the demonstration going. Those off duty squatted on the low stone coping where indulgent police allowed them to doze...
...fireman of the future," cried Chief Methuen, "will not climb up a ladder from the pavement, he will climb down a ladder, from a hovering air fire engine...