Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carpenters were still pounding, the painters still painting, the sign saying "This Is A WPA Job" was still on" the sidewalk in front of Cleveland's Public Hall, when the preliminaries of the Republican National Convention got under way. For Republicans were in such a hurry last week that they overflowed Cleveland long before their convention began. More eager than animals to get aboard the Ark before the Flood, politicians came...
...hour before the broadcast some 100 patriotic and prosperous members of the National Americanization League, led by a be-spatted onetime alderman from Manhattan's "silk stocking" district and a burly onetime major general in the Irish Army, appeared before the Columbia Broadcasting building, marched up & down the sidewalk with small U. S. flags and placards lettered SMASH COMMUNISM and BROWDER IS BORING FROM WITHIN...
Whirling into Cowperthwaite from Memorial Drive, a small car sent shivers of concern down the spines of helpless onlookers. Their fears, however, were premature. The tiny darling tripped suddenly yet daintily to the certain safety of the sidewalk, hastily exclaiming to no one in particular...
...when she was frozen in her tracks by the sight of two speeding automobiles coming together at the intersection, by the sound of shrieking brakes, screeching tires. That was the last Rose Samanoff ever saw, ever heard. To avoid a collision, one of the cars swerved up on the sidewalk, struck her a deadly blow, turned over on its side...
...showing automobile, corpse and man, Cranston made two shots. Back at his office later he learned from a reporter that the weeping man was Rose Samanoff's husband who, seeing the crowd in the street, had pushed in to discover that the victim of sudden death on the sidewalk was his wife...