Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside in the rain Manhattan traffic ground endlessly by with scarcely a pause where small boys cluttered the sidewalk under the big electric sign of Madison Square Garden. But inside it was a different world. Harlem Negroes, East Side Jews, a rag, tag & bobtail from the four corners of New York jostled Park Avenue socialites in the corridors. A dozen languages merged into a humming background for the sharp cries of men selling balloons, noisemakers, dolls, mickeymice, pink lemonade gone modern in bottles, popcorn, peanuts (5˘ outside, 10˘ within), frankfurters and colored parasols. Over all sounded the neighing of horses...
...Brooklyn, three men in an automobile drew up beside John Vaccaro. "Have you got a match?" they asked. When John Vaccaro said "No," they leaped out, knocked him down, kicked him about the sidewalk, shot him in the hand. An hour later, Samuel Saulkind, waiting for a street car, was asked, "Have you got a match?" "No," he said. Whereat the trio fell upon Samuel Saulkind, kicked him about the sidewalk, fractured his skull. Approaching Frank Thornton on his way home, the three autoists queried, "Have you got a match?" When he replied "No," they belabored him grievously, left...
...great grey Cadillacs glide up to great buildings. Top hats and spats swagger along Commonwealth, while Malacca canes set the pavements smarting. An ascot tie and a white pearl move slowly up the wide stone steps. Black velvet and grey feathers sweep to the sidewalk and a car door slams. young men with their fathers' money and fathers with fathers' money smile stiffly to one another. Cameras snap and the papers have a picture of a bent leg and averted gaze underneath a resounding name...
...speak out loud and bold, the Vagabond truly felt like some watcher of the skies. Here was a man-man, did he say?-a youth of sixteen years is more like-who went to the city. On his very first day there, this boy was walking on an icy sidewalk. A dignified gentleman in front of him suddenly slipped and would have fallen had it not been for the quickness of our hero. The gentleman thanked him, and to prove there was nothing small in his nature, took our hero home and made him his secretary. He also added...
...from the hospital with their new baby. He hurried through the decompression chambers, found himself in normal air pressure too soon. At 3 a. m. he woke up choking, writhing with "the bends." Gasping for air, he staggered to a window, threw himself against the pane, fell to the sidewalk three stories below. His wife & baby remained in one hospital and Cheerful Tom Nestor was taken to another with a broken hip, several broken ribs, to recover from his attack of "the bends...