Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice John A. Ford of the New York Supreme Court leaped to escape a speedy motor truck in lower Manhattan. A fellow pedestrian had an even closer call. Breathing hard, steadying himself on the Justice's arm, the stranger gasped: "If that guy had knocked me down and sent me to the hospital, what could I do about...
...Roche of the State's Attorney's office. Before them was led a tall, thickset, wavy-haired young man named Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers. Investigator Roche proudly introduced him as the hired assassin of Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the racketeering Tribune crime reporter, who, while walking through a pedestrian's subway beneath famed Michigan Avenue, was plugged with one neat .32 bullet in his head head head (TIME, June 23). Chicago's best murder mystery of a decade and one of the stenchiest of its many stinking scandals was, according to Chief Roche, solved...
...hired by Joe Traum, Indiana and Kentucky gangleader, and Richard Michael Sullivan, who was a friend of mine. I drove them in a stolen car to the Illinois Central pedestrian subway. There they joined a blond man whose name I never knew. These three killed Jake Lingle. I think the blond man fired the shot. They were acting for Christ Patras, a north-side restaurant man, who represented Jack Zuta, business manager for the Aiello-Moran gang. When my employers went to collect the $10,000 promised them by Patras, he balked, was killed. Zuta was killed two months afterward...
...universalization of the Great War must look for it elsewhere. Here they will only find an attempt to show its effect upon a somewhat solitary- minded young man ... I am no believer in wild denunciations of the War, I am merely describing my own experiences of it ... my pedestrian tale...
...wont, in the Coffee Shoppe of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. When he was finished he bought a cigar and a form sheet for that afternoon's horse races at Washington Park. Smoking and reading he walked toward the Illinois Central railroad station, entered the crowded pedestrian tunnel passing under Michigan Avenue. As he neared the tunnel's exit, another man stepped behind him, thrust a "belly-gun" (sawed-off revolver) close to the back of his head, fired a .38-calibre bullet through his brain. With the cigar still clenched in his teeth, the form sheet still clutched...