Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Station at 9 p. m. Two hundred thousand of them from every city ward were on hand. Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles. Men in linen dusters carried red fireballs aloft. Bands blared, whistles shrieked, sidewalk crowds roared. It took Governor Roosevelt, in a huge white touring car, 45 minutes to edge his way seven blocks through the human pack to his hotel. Not for years had Chicago seen such a turnout, even under Big Bill Thompson...
...Manhattan William Bound, seaman, said "No" to a beggar. Police later found Seaman Bound lying on the sidewalk with stab wounds in chest, arm and shoulder...
Last June a young commercial artist staged Manhattan's first sidewalk art show, where artists and buyers dickered face to face over sales (TIME, May 2, June 13). Last week Chicago's artists swarmed into Grant Park, set their pictures on park benches or the ground and stood ready for buyers. Of the 200, able painters were Ivan Lorraine and Malvin Marr Albright, Mrs. Vivian Hoyt and Raymond Katz. In a welter of bad art, the artists were gay, buyers tolerant. Young buyers bought nudes, older ones "parlor pieces" of still life and landscape, totaling over...
...make friends with a young actress (Frances Dee). When, during a penthouse entertainment, a racketeer insults the actress, her aunt immediately kills him. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. shows how quick-witted he is by throwing the racketeer's corpse off the roof. When police find it on the sidewalk, they do not guess about the murder. He is rewarded not by the actress's devotion but by a mean trick such as real colyumists have given the public to understand is particularly likely to occur in Manhattan's theatre district. The actress marries someone else and the colyumist...
...eccentrics, formidably sincere and industrious, with their paintings of "The Spirit of St. Louis" flying upside down over one smeared yellow wave. Present were all the photograph retouchers, family sketchers and advertising artists out of work, anybody with a couple of pictures and the nerve to stand on the sidewalk in front of them. Present were Sponsors John Sloan and Tony Sarg prosperous relics of Greenwich Village in its famed days. Present were thousands of customers. Present also were a few able painters, selling good pictures for as little as $5 each...