Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London's sidewalk artists reap a harvest of Sunday coppers by drawing Mrs. Simpson in colored crayon. Meanwhile King Edward at his snuggery declines to receive his friend and recent guest in Scotland, the Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, son of the No. 2 British Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere. In his great, mass-conscious penny-press thunders Rothermere: "I have just returned from a trip around the world. . . . Everywhere unstinted praise and admiration of our King! . . . You cannot smuggle the greatest living Englishman off the throne of England during the weekend...
...dusk gathered one day last week an elderly man and his younger companion hurried along the sidewalk near the Trust Company of Georgia building in downtown Atlanta. Neither was aware that they were being followed by Edward E. Conroy, Atlanta chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and several of his G-Men. When the two men were a few yards from the bank the G-Men pounced. One pinned the old man's arms while the others scuffled with the younger man. Before the youth was subdued a G-Man was knocked to the sidewalk, had to dodge...
...Twelve women and 45 men, picketing the Berkshire Knitting Mills in Reading, Pa. by lying flat on its ice-covered front walk, refused to budge under a tear-gas barrage, were arrested, sentenced to 30 days in jail for "blocking the sidewalk...
Johnny is let out by and by. His girl has married a Wartime malingerer who made a fortune from laxative water. Simple, defeated but undismayed, Johnny becomes a sidewalk hawker. "Toys," he cries. "Toys. Toys for good little girls and boys." He sings a melancholy little song about his faith in man's ultimate goodness, walks away up a long street...
Born & bred in Brooklyn. Hirsch Jacobs outgrew sidewalk handball as an outlet for his competitive urge when he was 13. Like many another adolescent in New York's restricted areas, he then achieved a vicarious escape mechanism by raising and training homing pigeons, in partner ship with his Italian neighbor, Charles Ferrara. When representatives of the Jacobs-Ferrara lofts came home first in several pigeon races, the partners turned their thoughts to bigger things. In 1924 they invested in a race horse named Demijohn. This was before Pigeon Fancier Jacobs had ever seen a horse race or even made...