Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, one "Joe Stone or No Name, the Miracle Man," who makes his living by acting like a robot, was fined $2 under an ordinance which forbids use of "mechanical or sound-making devices to attract passersby, thereby causing them to block the sidewalk...
...were alarmed one day fortnight ago to see a large new padlock on the door of a popular 6th Avenue shop. Gone from the window were the innocent green ginger ale bottles which had identified it as one of Manhattan's legion of "cordial & beverage" shops. On the sidewalk rested several battered milk cans. Pasted on the door was a notice that read: "Closed for violation of the Prohibition Law." But before the day was over Villagers were reassured. The sign had not been up 24 hours before above the padlock notice appeared a new, larger sign...
...Manhattan police station, policemen listening to a radio heard Commissioner Mulrooney declare: "Homicides resulting from lovers' quarrels cannot be prevented by the police." Two shots sounded half a block from the station house. The policemen ran to the spot, found two lovers dead on the sidewalk...
Fortnight ago the pedestrian with the sensitive nose passed a rooming house on East 45th Street at the moment when Truckman Edward Wetzenberger was hoisting a large trunk from the sidewalk. The garageman smelled ether. He quickly telephoned the police station, "A man's carrying a trunk with a body in it out of a house here!" Detectives Elmer Mason and Rudolph McLaughlin climbed into their speedy little black Ford, rushed to the address in time to follow Mr. Wetzenberger's truck to a warehouse on East 41st Street. A Cuban broker by the name of Jorge...
...Harry Richman's scene after the intermission, selling a broom to a housewife by radio advertising technique (including quartet). But the main box office insurance, besides frequent and generous glimpses of lovely Zigs, remained the injections of nostalgia. These were administered in two ways, for contrast. Under a sidewalk perspective of the Empire State Building, industrious Mr. Richman sang while the company pranced a stagger-jazz cacophony called "Doing the New York," sure to make out-of-towners feel well away from home. And out of a hard-drinking penthouse party scene were developed two scenes of New York night...