Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Democratic Senator Robert Wagner, author of the dead bill, retorted: "The President has failed every man out pounding the pavement in search of work. . . . Before we ever got into water, the Administration was offered a sound horse with which to ride through the storm. It refused it. It insisted on riding the decrepit and balky creature which is the existing Federal employment service...
...every accident which may befall an animal, the kits contain a horse blanket, a water pail, new bits, colic medicine, spirits of ammonia, iodine, tourniquets, adhesive tape, bandages, dusting powder for sores. But in winter if a cruelty preventer finds a horse scrambling for foothold on a slippery pavement, or one which has fallen on the ice, he is unable to help if he has not got some horse carpet-slippers. Last week the Society announced that it was short of slippers, appealed to the public for contributions...
...atmosphere breathed its spell upon him. This would never do! Death and the graveyard spun their eery way through the network of his brain. An owl screeched in the German Museum. His mind played pranks and he looked down the dismal stretches to the rain-swept pavement below. Suicide...
...Americans are literary snobs," said burly British Novelist John Boynton (Angel Pavement) Priestley, landing in Manhattan last week. "I am here to speak or lecture at a place called Buffalo, prominent for its bootleggers. Then I will speak at Toledo, a place full of crooks chased out of Chicago. Third, I will lecture at Urbana, Ill., a place I couldn't find on my $12 atlas...
...Priestley, author of "Angel Pavement," is going to Tahiti by way of New York to write his next novel...