Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tastes the same"; "I often memorize numbers which are not important (such as automobile licenses, etc.)"; "Someone has it in for me"; "If given the chance I could do some things that would be of great benefit to the world"; "In walking I am very careful to step over sidewalk cracks"; "I am not afraid of picking up a disease or germs from door knobs"; "I certainly feel useless at times"; "I think Lincoln was greater than Washington";* "My table manners are not quite as good at home as when I am out in company...
When the sun dried a patch of sidewalk, Moscow children played hopscotch. Peasants brought the first pussywillows to the markets. Hothouses dispatched their first onions and radishes to hospitals and children's homes. In the zoo a baby hippopotamus was expected...
...inaugurated in 1935 by ruddy, jovial Lawrence Gilliam, Cambridgeman and BBC features director. Since then BBC sound trucks have poked about England recording fox hunts, hop-picking festivals, markets, and building them into first-rate documentary radio shows. They also went abroad to record the sounds (sidewalk conversation, café colloquies, shopping talk, parades, music) of foreign cities...
...stampede is worst in the Broadway spots, with their bargain prices, gaudy floor shows and influx of sidewalk trade; but the swish East Side clubs are going almost as strong. Variety reports that headwaiters, disguised in overcoats, stand outside two East Side clubs, being choosy about the guests. The Village is booming also. Only the smoke-filled, low-ceiled jazz spots that sprang up while Manhattan had swing fever are (save for one or two like Kelly's Stable) on the syncopated skids. People want soft tunes they can sway to and old favorites they can hum. Most ubiquitous...
Candy From Babies. In Pittsburgh, as Patrolman Jim Harvey crossed a sidewalk trap door he felt it start to rise, stepped aside, beheld two men ascending in state with $840 in swag, promptly nabbed them. In Oklahoma City, Autoist Russell B. Smith, stopped by two would-be robbers, scared them off by barking at his dashboard receiving set: "Calling all cars, reporting robbery at 37th and Classen...