Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While working on the thirty-ninth story of the Chrysler building the other day, I had the great joy of accidentally dropping a full bucket of bright orange paint to the sidewalk hundreds of feet below. . . No, I never bothered to find out whether I hit anyone...
...museum. Winches, ropes, pulleys and masses of wadding were used to hoist it from the basement of the Ettl Studios to the street level. Sculptor Lachaise was too nervous to watch but telephoned every ten minutes for a report on progress. Standing on the sidewalk before the museum he screamed with dismay when three fire engines bore down on truck and Mountain just as they were backing in to the curb. There was no collision...
...where he was studying painting and architecture. In 1892 an artistic argument with the All Highest, Wilhelm II, caused him to leave Germany suddenly for the U. S. For two years he lived in Bowery flophouses, working as a bartender when he could, selling packets of needles on the sidewalk at other times...
...onetime British officer and automobile racer who had enlisted in the Saar international police, drove his friend the Earl of Aylesford and a German girl named Käthe Braun home after a high time in a café. Swinging his car around a corner he climbed the sidewalk, ran over the foot of a Frau Steig. Immediately the street was full of caterwauling Germans. Captain Justice whipped out his service revolver, fired two shots. One slightly injured a bystander. Hysterical Saarlanders furiously beat Justice, pummeled the Earl of Aylesford, kicked Käthe Braun in the rump...
Although Harvard had procured a license to operate an outdoor parking space at standard rates, it had not obtained permission to level the sidewalk and to drive cars into the let. With resistance against destroying the curb adamant, the entire project appeared on the point of collapsing until on Tuesday the Cambridge City Council voted a permit to let the University go to work on the curbstone...