Word: pedestrianized
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...York, some of these normally inaudible sounds were accidentally overheard. Cops started punching the wrong people and the people started yelling. The first was a Bronx candy dealer named Samuel Grossman. He complained that a patrolman had jerked him out of his car, accused him of annoying a woman pedestrian, and punched him in the face...
...Northern blood and Southern guts, held in solution by a lively plot. House Divided lacks the nostalgia of MacKinlay Kantor's Long Remember, the flinty humor of Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, the sexy folderol of Gone With the Wind. In sticking closer to the pedestrian facts of history, it is more convincing-if less exciting-than its predecessors...
Here in the Hotel Schroeder and in Milwaukee Auditorium two blocks away, the keynote thus becomes "Building, AVC.' In an opening-gun all-day Workshop tomorrow, delegates will exchange experiences and ideas on the pedestrian difficulties of integrating a young organization with its community environment. "Successful Chapter Meetings," "How to Raise Funds Locally," and "Techniques of Recruiting New Members" typify the topics for panel discussion. Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.'s Saturday morning address on housing will stress action on the local level...
...Hecht screenplay is Adolph Menjou playing a Hollywood producer whose movies nosedive until he meets a wholesome miss (Andrea Leeds) with the proper pedestrian slant concerning what the public wants. She becomes his private consultant--"Miss Humanity"--on the plain citizen's tastes in story twists. Instructions explicitly forbid her mingling in film colony circles where she might "go Hollywood;" one night she dares venture into a hamburger wagon where Kenny Baker sings while he flips ("love walked right in . . . and drove the shadows away") in a romantic golden voice custom-built for Mr. Plain Citizen. Sugar daddy Menjou gets...
...understanding. Even the most industrious students need relaxation, and the Union management to date has supplied only ping-pong tables, inexpensive dances, discussion groups, bridge, chess, music, and stamp clubs, opportunity to create a Yardling publication, and a debating society. Students have stayed away in droves from these pedestrian activities in favor of the obviously superior sport and excitement of springing butter from a knife onto a convenient ceiling...