Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crossed Pennsylvania Avenue at Twelfth Street. Not only was the air crisp, but a gusty wind was swirling a sudden downpour of snow. Up the avenue from the Capitol came a huge dray drawn by six white Percherons?an unusually large hitch even for those horse days. Reaching the sidewalk I turned to give a second glance and then burst into uproarious laughter. . . . Greenough's George Washington had appeared through the haze of snow, and towering there ten feet high, naked to the waist, one arm raised to heaven, riding in state to a fitting limbo of an obscure storage...
...cases highly skillful. Now Agnes Rogers has arranged her New York into a book of photographs, assembled with superb judgment from the huge incoherent mass of subjects which the great city presents. Lower Manhattan at dawn, Scarsdalers waiting herd-like for the 8.52; a homeless drunk sprawled on the sidewalk, semi-human sardines jammed into the subway; Mrs. $25,000-a-year-executive smugly viewing the man-made greenness of the Bronx River Parkway; Miss $15-a-week dictation sponge engulfing a hectic ham-on-rye; sunshine on the glories of Park Avenue; the same sunshine on the littered, crowded...
...thought the Department was going to concentrate on digging up that boulevard, which was recently successfully repave through the efforts of the same outfit. But early yesterday morning, they sneaked around to the other side of the Yard, where seen two nice, six-foot deep holes appeared in the sidewalk behind Straus Hall
...bearded Jew in Halévy's La Juive; Geraldine Farrar appearing in Die Königskinder with a flock of real, live geese (TIME, Nov. 12); Maria Jeritza giving her first breath-taking Tosca; Marion Talley making her début with mounted police handling the sidewalk crowds outside the dingy opera house...
...crew of six men and a truck have started to lovel off the lot, and it will probably be about two weeks before the space will be properly graded and fenced, according to Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University. Two ramps are to be built across the sidewalk, and a wire fence is to enclose the plot. Durant also said that attendants will be on hand during the day-time, but no responsibility can be taken by the University for the safety of the cars or their contents...