Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hatted apparition in the shrubbery beside Kirkland House, impatiently pushing twigs out of his eyes and muttering to himself. One, more curious than his fellows, drew nearer to do a little caves dropping. The muttering resolved itself into: "You'd think that Lehman Hall could afford to lay a sidewalk here...
...Artists) is Emile Zola's story about a Parisian gutter-lily, gilded by Samuel Goldwyn. When first seen Nana (Anna Sten) is a scrubgirl, soapily eager to be glamorous and rich. As a first step toward this goal she pushes a drunken soldier into the troutpool of a sidewalk cafe. Her act so delights an impressionable theatrical manager (Richard Bennett) with Belasco manners and Minsky talent, that he makes her his mistress, teaches her to be a torchsinger...
...Indiana desperadoes, John Dillinger and John Hamilton. Outside were eight policemen. John Hamilton took time to scoop up $20,376. Then, using Vice President Walter Spencer as a shield, the gunmen battled their way to an accomplice's car, fled in a hail of bullets. On the sidewalk lay the riddled body of William P. O'Malley, fourth police victim of the Dillinger gang in three months' banditry...
...write, viz.: "Squadron A in their smart uniforms formed in the narrow street to escort the Vice-President-elect to the Capitol. We decided that their mounts had been hired in Washington for the occasion, probably taken from coal wagons, as they showed a tendency to back onto the sidewalk...
...citizen and superintendent of a group of Germany's Woolworth stores, went walking, pinless, with his wife. Cheering Dusseldorfers stood massed along the curbstone six deep as a Storm Battalion marched past, grim-faced with blaring horns and throbbing drums. Mr. & Mrs. Velz, as they edged down the sidewalk behind the packed standees failed to salute the Storm Troop's swastika flag. Smack!-a uniformed Nazi edging the other way down the sidewalk bashed Mr. Velz on the mouth. Smack!-he bashed him again. U. S. Citizen Velz's lips and nose gushed blood. Spying a policeman...