Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drive to a theatre in Yonkers. At the wheel of a borrowed car-because too many people know his-he set out. On the way another car pulled alongside. A man got out, holding a handkerchief to his face. "Go to the drugstore on the corner of 19th Street and Eighth Avenue about 9 p. m.," said the stranger, and disappeared...
Still undaunted, Columnist Winchell was on hand at the appointed hour. Another stranger appeared. "Tell Hoover to be at 28th Street on Fifth Avenue between 10:10 and 10:20," said he. Winchell went to a telephone and followed instructions. Then he got into his car and let Stranger No. 2 take the wheel. At 10:15 Stranger No. 2 pulled up at Madison Square and got out. "Just wait here," he said. Winchell waited. A moment later a third stranger arrived, opened the door and got in. He took off his dark glasses and threw them into the street...
...Become President (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930), by cooperating fulsomely with the Press, by traveling about, by appearing hale and lusty on all occasions. For the camera he let his mother pin a flower in his buttonhole; he vigorously strode up & down Owosso's Main Street; he posed chummily with Farmer Earl Putnam, who once paid him $30 a month to run a cultivator, do chores; he ate Mrs. Putnam's noonday "dinner" of home-cured ham, eggs, new potatoes, corn from the patch, fresh cherry pie. He played golf, suppressing his scores. Less pleasurably, he heard that...
Soccer enthusiasts kick the ball around across the street on the Business School fields, under the direction of John McDonald. This sport offers the beginner a good opportunity to earn his Yearling numerals, as few veterans report...
Squash, under the direction of Jack Harnaby, is one of the top winter sports. The Linden Street courts are open to Freshmen, who may make, any of the four teams. Providing all-around exercise in a relatively short time, squash plays an important part in House athletics...