Word: pedestrianized
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...prize competition, settled unwillingly to a job as chauffeur to his best girl's father. Sythia's grandmother sacrificed part of her funeral money to divert the "career" into a more appropriate job in a beauty parlor. Darthula's nagging drove her beau from a good pedestrian job to a short-lived "position"; when that sank under him and he turned milkman for lack of something better, she broke the engagement. Mrs. Hoe's job grew more precarious; Mr. Hoe's desperate figuring on the backs of old envelopes got him nowhere as usual. When...
...Tribune published a cartoon by Jay ("Ding"') Darling captioned "The Fates Are Funny That Way." It pictured a wreck at a railway crossing ("36,000 Die in Auto Crashes Every Year!"); a scene in an operating room (''Prominent Senator Succumbs to Emergency Operation!"); a street accident ("Pedestrian Killed Crossing Street!"); a row of dead lying beside a table ("Poison Food Kills 469 at Old Settlers' Picnic!"); a volcano erupting ("Earthquakes, Floods, Cancer and Pestilence Kill Thousands Every Day!"). Beneath this billboard of horrors appeared a citizen, newspaper in hand, turning to his wife exclaiming: "But nothing...
...driven a car for years without having ever sounded his horn is either a bit absent-minded or he is not fit to drive a car. Many many fatal accidents have occurred because no warning was given. It is better to annoy a pedestrian or motorist than to kill...
...square miles of equatorial jungle." On the contrary, the natives, with the exception of the independent and frequently turbulent Krus, are remarkably peaceful and even in the case of the Krus there is more than a suspicion that their uprising has been inspired by outside agitators with ulterior motives. Pedestrian strangers are safe everywhere and there have been no revolutionary movements such as we constantly witness in the South American so-called republics. Certainly there has never been such a dark and bloody chapter as is recorded by our American Indians, with torturings, murderings and scalpings. Neither...
...eyed Harvard man. Let trembling bookworms and palpitating professors trundle a block out of Harvard Square before trusting their frail bodies to the metal maelstrom, but as for us, the vast majority, let us still enjoy the thrills of brushing a fleeting fender with our coat tails in this pedestrian's paradise. May all schoolgirlish reference to those terrifying automobiles in Harvard Square be dropped forever from the masculine columns of the CRIMSON. F. M. Rivinus...