Word: pedestrianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides making the trains run on time, Mussolini also made Rome's turbulent traffic run smoothly. He prohibited the Roman pedestrian's custom of reading newspapers in the middle of the street. Once, interrupted in his meditations by a horn insistently honking in the Piazza Venezia below, Mussolini shouted an order that all "acoustic signaling" be forthwith prohibited in Rome. Romans whispered sadly that their "city of noise" had become the città del silenzio...
Those teeth, of course, are museum pieces; such things don't get lost every day. But plenty of textbooks, coats, overshoes, and other pedestrian items pop up in one place or another during the year, and don't get claimed. The several depositories hold lost articles for a sufficient period of time, but that alone doesn't insure a competent lost-and-found system. The loser should have every chance to pick up his property; he can't do that unless he knows where to look...
...suitable repertory material, but it is the "pleasant and amusing" comedy the directors said it would be. It is even uproariously funny is two or three instances, not a bad average, certainly. The acting couldn't be better and goes a long way towards covering up the pedestrian plot and characters...
...Lewis and unions in general, bad an easy evening piling up votes over West Virginia's arch-conservative Senator, Chapman Revercomb, who had been left to lurch for himself by Republican chieftains. Senator Robertson of Wyoming lost out to Democrat Lester Hunt, whose sprightly campaign--contrasted with the pedestrian tactics of his opponent--was typical of many of the Democratic victories...
...time to turn to these more dangerous areas. A graceful brick overpass in each trouble spot which not pedestrian would use, or a more expensive underpass which would be no more popular, are two possible solutions. Short of portly policemen behind loudspeakers, the most sensible way to reduce the perils seems to be the installation of two sets of traffic lights or officers, one at the junction of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets and another at the corner in front of Lehman Hall. A shift in location of the Lehman Hall taxi stand, or at least a decrease in its size...