Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those leaping, shifting, fugitive things called jaywalkers, who twist their way through traffic, will become an extinct species if the rules of the new traffic code just initiated in Boston are successfully executed. These laws are shaped to hinder foot passengers' shuffling off this mortal coil in the midst of traffic and, secondly, to assist steering wheel handlers, whose skill in manipulating their machines is taxed when the appearing-from-no-where body of a pedestrian is suddenly and unexpectedly eyed through the windshield...
Though Edward of Wales often goes about unrecognized, and although Motorist George V has had several encounters with stupid traffic policemen, London editors could not recall that Queen Mary has ever before escaped recognition or suffered pert speech from one of her female subjects...
...Catholic when I spoke at Springfield, Ohio, to another conference of Methodist ministers. When Governor Smith says that he is hiding behind his own Church because he is afraid to come out and face the record that he has made as a champion of the liquor traffic...
Ability, judgment, and loyalty are good money anywhere. They are too good money to invest in the paying stones of hell. A paved street is a handsome sight, but unless there is traffic on the street it leads nowhere. And there are plenty of people who sell paying stones. That's their weakness...
...Dear, dear−here he is right in our midst−a real, live prince. . . . [Whisper]−I'd really rather be a traffic cop myself, wouldn...