Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lyman Richards M.D. would test concert audiences' musical appreciation by seating "Kreisler, shabbily disguised, on a camp stool at a busy sidewalk corner. A 'Blind' sign above his dark glasses, let him draw his magic bow and play as only he can play it, the Caprice Viennois." (TIME, April...
...book on the Roman form of the game. Domitian was an adept and Caligula a cheat. Its English name comes from the Saxon baec (back) and gamen (game)-a game in which the draughtsmen are liable to be sent back. For a long time it has been played on sidewalk tables in European restaurants, on steamers, in school common rooms, and in nurseries. In the U. S. it has gained new favor in the last year. Its vogue came mysteriously, quickly: boards, once relatively easy to get, came to be in such demand that toy and sporting goods stores could...
Convinced that much musical hypocrisy exists among our symphonic and concert audiences who, impressed by the eminence of the artists, claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand, I propose a test. Let Artist Kreisler seat himself, shabbily disguised, on a camp stool at a busy sidewalk corner. A " Blind" sign above his dark glasses, let him draw his magic bow, and play, as only he can play it, the Caprice Viennois. How many, think you, of his applauding audience, as they hurried by, would pause longer than to jangle a few pennies into the tin cup strapped...
Steam from the Cambridge Electric Light Company's plant will be supplied to the University by two 12-inch mains installed in a tunnel beneath the Memorial Drive sidewalk. This tunnel connects with the Business School main at a point between McKinlock Hall and Dunster House, where the steam will be divided between the Business School, and the mains going north...
...Antonio, last week, Dr. James R. Brain, president of the Texas Chiropractic College there, ejected two policemen from his building. They stood on the sidewalk and would not let him go outdoors, because he would not submit to smallpox vaccination ordered by Dr. William A. King, city health director...