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Construction, after winning approval of the Cambridge Council, proceeded downward some four feet, at which point the Square's main power line was uncharted. After a shuffling of blueprints and a cautions detour, the digging continued a few note feet, where it met a subterranean chamber extending beneath the sidewalk from the bank's lowest level. On the street they built a five foot five inch metal box housing a mirror, microphone, loudspeaker, window, and a slot for currently. A further adornment is the policeman who directs traffic and advises depositors on the mechanics...
Falling to the sidewalk, he hit his head against the Yard's brick wall...
...coffee-colored youth came out of the committee room one morning last week after being reclassified as native. He had a look of shocked bewilderment on his face as he walked up to a group of his Colored friends waiting on the sidewalk for their turn before the board. But the coffee-colored youth did not get a chance to speak. "Get away from us, you filthy Kaffir [black]," spat one of his former chums, as the group walked hastily away. They knew that being seen with him might be evidence enough to reclassify them as African "natives...
...Hoboken, a Jersey waterfront town that does not shrink from comparison with Port Said, the old folks on the front steps tell the tale of a pretty little boy with rosy cheeks and light brown ringlets who went skipping along the sidewalk in one of the nation's hairiest neighborhoods -all dressed up in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. "Hey!" said one little denizen of the neighborhood. "Lookit momma's dolling!" It was the work of a moment for the roughneck and his pal to redecorate the object of their interest with a barrage of rotten fruit. Then...
Honk, Plonk. In Casteldaccia, Sicily, police had to rescue Bus Driver Paolo Alliotta, 33, from a mob of townsmen, who stoned him because he blew his horn to clear traffic, awoke them from their sidewalk naps...