Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away six automobiles provided to take them to Capitol Square, where a crowd was waiting for a speech, Huey Long crisply announced: "We'll walk." On the way he stopped to order his bandleader to play "Alexander's Ragtime Band"; to seize a pretty brunette from the sidewalk crowd, make her march between himself and the Mayor. At the War Memorial Building, Senator Long led the university's 125-piece band, made a speech expressing his thanks for the reception. During the game, he functioned as cheerleader. Just before it ended, he rushed across the field, while...
...work, which will be under the supervision of the Maintenance Department, demands the removal of the stone foundations, grading, construction of sidewalk approaches and a fence...
...opinions on the blank walls of the city. At the end of a street they met. Brushes went flying. Paste pots were spilled. Damp bundles of posters littered the ground. Pistols cracked in the half-light. By the time the breathless police arrived two men lay dead on the sidewalk, four others were seriously wounded...
...fact that Spring Song belies its gay title does not indicate that its intent is fraudulent. It is a sad, but honest anecdote, wisely acted and quietly written, in which Francine Larrimore, tending the Solomon sidewalk cigar stand with puzzled petulance, gives her best performance since Brief Moment. No less genuine than Florrie as self-respecting tenement dwellers are Ma Solomon, and Butcher Freiberg who, when asked for an explanation of the Solomons' misfortunes, voices the dry, dialectic theme of Spring Song: "When you are young, you expect everything from life. When you get older, you expect nothing...
Dressed all in white mourning, she scarcely looked up as her loyal subjects tingled their bicycle bells on the sidewalk and roared the old Dutch cheer: "Orange Boven! Orange Boven! Orange up!" Ten automobile loads of Dutch Communists tried to cut into the royal procession and were beaten back by helmeted Hague policemen. Her Majesty ignored them as her coach rolled past the moat into the medieval Binnenhof, seat of the States-General...