Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto last week one Fred Shipley did a jigsaw puzzle while his apartment burned. Forcibly ejected by firemen. Puzzler Shipley finished his puzzle under a blanket on the sidewalk...
...cent a dish. The place is clean and respectable, and it differs from soup kitchen in that those who patronize it suffer no more in morale than the patrons of the Georgian restaurant or the University dining halls. Detroiters may buy in the downtown stores tokens designed for sidewalk charity, worth a cent each at the "Penny Cafeteria," but honored as currency nowhere else. Thus the casual passerby is assured that the object of his generosity is not a beggar controlled by a racket, and that he gets something better for his money than needled beer...
...small brown face, descended into the street and quietly, efficiently, went amok. Proceeding at an even dog trot, a knife fashioned out of a bolo (native blade) in each hand, he skewered an aged grocer as he stood in his store doorway, then an amazed bystander on the sidewalk, then three Filipinos in a row. People ran screaming in all directions. When Officer Gordon Jensen, returning from a football game, saw him, Julian Marcelino was busy on a Japanese. By this time reserves had been rushed to the scene from all over Seattle. Officer Jensen and two colleagues finally overcame...
...their frosty Thanksgiving morning, Chicagoans massed in the parks of the Midway, along sidewalk and gutter, all facing toward the University of Chicago's Gothic chapel, as the sound of bells from no direction that one could fix filled and emptied the air, now eerily fading, now resurging like a seashell's roar, brassily clanging, diminishing, mellowing into silver chimes. It was the University of Chicago's first carillon concert. In the 200-ft. tower of the chapel, Carilloneur Kamiel Lefévere, humped on his bench, was striking with clenched fists the keys of a huge...
...President stuck to the safety of his private car. When he finally emerged, he got a bitter booing. Before his eyes waggled placards: "We Want Bonus." "Down With Hoover." "Hoover-Boloney & Apple Sauce." During the 20-minute drive to the Olympic Arena he was jeered and derided by sidewalk throngs. Inside the hall he was among 20,000 friends yelling and stamping their welcome. On the platform with him were Henry Ford, Governor Brucker, Senators Couzens and Vandenberg, Postmaster General Brown, Secretary of Commerce Chapin...