Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Indianapolis, the President sped back to Washington, there sped to a White House microphone to report to the nation on his tour. Studiously pedestrian in its "nonpolitical" approach to Drought, Franklin Roosevelt's first fireside talk of 1936 took on some of the verve of his previous radio heart-to-hearts when he turned to re-employment and his favorite theme of economic freedom. Said he: "My friends!* I have been on a journey of husbandry. . . . I saw drought devastation in nine states. I talked with families who had lost their wheat crop, lost their corn crop, lost...
...other end of the line we find the Park Theatre, fromerly of Mineky's chain, presenting the much whispered about Czechoslovakian film "Ecstasy." The Park bills it for Adults Only, but it is nowhere near that exciting. Except for moments of genuine scenic charm it is an exceedingly pedestrian study of why girls get restless at times and will please all those who find this study sufficiently interesting to overcome the noxious results of a censor's unseeing...
...fact that it was 10.30 and quite dark did not slacken the speed of the canine streaks of lightning. They went by smell, and when they came to the deceitful tracks of some pedestrian they often went off the track. But it was not long before shouts from Freshmen, cunningly stationed at strategic positions about the Yard, put them back...
...Southern Pacific interurban trains and Key Route tramways. That does not mean that Pullman passengers from New York will now be able to ride through to San Francisco. Only lightweight suburban railway cars, no regular main-line trains, will be allowed to cross Bay Bridge. There are no pedestrian walks...
...Francisco to the north, cross the famed harbor entrance in one 6,450-ft. leap. Hung on two 746-ft. towers, 4.200 ft. apart, it will be the largest suspension bridge in the world when opened about March 1937, will have but a six-lane automobile deck with two pedestrian walks. Its cost, financed by local bond issues...