Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wall Street corporation, and lived on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, sat under the trees on his lawn and strolled around Rushville like a native. Willkie demurred when police (including two courtesy plain-clothes men sent by New York City's police commissioner) insisted on fencing off the sidewalk in front of his rented red brick house, for every day several hundred neighbors, farmers and motorists from neighboring States stop and wait politely before the house and several times a day Willkie comes out, gives them a cheerful wave of the hand and few good-natured words. But despite...
...hearty Briton was 55-year-old James Melville Cox, who liked the Japanese, spent 34 years in the Far East as a correspondent for Britain's Reuters News Agency. When Jimmy's body, battered, bloodstained, dying, was found on the sidewalk under a window of Tokyo's Police Headquarters last July, the Japanese Foreign Office announced that Jimmy had committed suicide (TIME Aug. 5), Jimmy's friends did not believe it. They had no evidence, but they knew Jimmy and they knew the cruelty and deceit of Japanese officialdom...
Last week Manhattan's Educational Alliance, a 48-year-old East Side settlement house, put on a sidewalk sale of 60 paintings, water colors, linoleum cuts by 40 of its pupils, aged 9 to 15. Priced...
...thus reducing its 100% U. S. content by about 1%. By the time he was through rehearsing he had fired a couple of woodwinds, had cajoled, scolded, flattered the rest into efficient adoration. To thank Mayor Taggart for the free bed & board, Stokowski led his youths in a sidewalk serenade in front of the mayor's house, playing the stuffing out of John Philip Sousa's Manhattan Beach, El Capitan and Semper fidelis, Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here...
...benefit of another. There U. S. artists and musicians have studied under first-rate Frenchmen each summer since; in off hours could relax in the Forest of Fontainebleau's shady green aisles, feed ring-snouted carp in the pond by the palace, down drinks and French pastry at sidewalk cafes and poke mild fun at Rosa Bonheur's bull on its pedestal in the village square...