Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like any soap-boxer, President Charles Lee Smith of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism sparred with God last October at Columbus Circle in Manhattan. A city ordinance requires that pavement preachers obtain a permit to orate. Soap-Boxer Smith was arrested for having no permit. Two courts convicted him of violating the ordinance. The Court of Appeals reversed the decision last week, unanimously agreeing that...
Quick as a panther, Dr. Dan's chauffeur sprang on the youth, wrenched the pistol from his hand before he could fire a second shot. But crumpled on the pavement in front...
MacDonald, in a London nursing home, following an operation for glaucoma; Mayor James John Walker of Manhattan, of a bronchial cold and low blood pressure; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska, in Lincoln, of injuries suffered when he slipped on an icy pavement; Mrs. Knute Rockne, widow of the Notre Dame football coach, in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., critically, following an abdominal operation; John R. Coen, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in Clarksburg, W. Va., of bronchial pneumonia; Actress Dorothy Gish, 34, in Manhattan, of a nervous disorder...
...business with distrust. But another Richard, the composer who almost runs off with the well-to-do hero's wife in Paris Bound (1927), is moved to remark: "I used to curse into my beard whenever I passed a house like this. I used to spit on the pavement whenever a decent-looking motorcar passed me. I don't any more because I've found two among you whom I know to be of absolutely first importance in all ways I value...
...notice any concussion. It exploded as it touched the pavement under the rear axle of the carriage ahead of the Emperor...