Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Johnny Mercer had been making songs out of bits of casual conversation. People who heard them just couldn't help singing them, they sounded so natural. Eddie Cantor, who ordered a batch of extra choruses to Every Time I Shave, never got around to singing them. But Sidewalk Poet Mercer got a job doing lyrics for the Garrick Gaieties, did another song called Out of Breath and Scared to Death of You. He married a pretty Gaieties chorus girl. One day she looked fondly at him, remarked, "You must have been a beautiful baby." Johnny Mercer reached...
...spirits, plans for retaliation were under discussion. Some suggested a well-directed firehose, some a mass march in front of Matthews at 5:30 o'clock. Finally a wild-eyed, harassed fugitive in one corner spoke up with determination. "It's very simple," he said. "Let's mine the sidewalk...
...three young officers of the Red Army, gratefully accepting Philip Morris cigarets from a U.S. correspondent, stamping loudly on the Moscow sidewalk, and saying with simple certainty that the Germans could...
Already the radio had spread the news to the Brazilian people and they chattered in sidewalk cafes, discussing who among them might volunteer, sizing up the part South America's biggest nation might play in World...
...Lexington, Mo. kindergarten-planning the week ahead. Pretty, brown-eyed Mrs. Hoge knows how to live the frontier life. As a general's lady she still does her cooking and washing. When the general is in town they take a short evening stroll on the board sidewalk with their fox terrier-Hoge puffing a favorite pipe. Nettie Hoge has led frontier life before. In the Philippines her husband built the main road on Bataan. But she has waited behind the lines, as when he won the D.S.C. for driving a bridge across the Meuse under fire in World...