Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tracks on busy Grand Boulevard. Elmers marched out into the middle of Lindell Boulevard, asked each other: "Who's got the dice?" threw down match boxes, bits of tin, Missouri's milk-bottle-top sales tax tokens, proceeded to roll the ivories and completely demoralize traffic. Elmers capered about in diapers, smocks, underwear and funny faces blowing bugles, shooting blank pistols, tooting whistles, ringing bells, hooting sirens, beating tin cans. Prime trick was to stop a motorist, "inspect" his brakes, lights, horn, windshield wiper, then lift his hood and close the petcock on his gas line so that...
Whether it be riding in the subway, waiting for at traffic light to turn green, or shaving before breakfast, Mr. Moore's productive brain takes but a single minute to compose the 14-line poetry unit which was first utilized by Patriarch and Shakespeare...
...psychiatrist and the son of a chiropodist run the anatomic gamut from head to foot. The year's mystery man is the son of "a paving-cutter," an occupation with a slightly sinister sound to these of us, who always thought that pavements got that way from traffic...
Since its publication Reader's Digest has sold more than 1,500,000 reprints of the Furnas article. Magazines, newspapers, the radio have quoted it. Judges have read it aloud to traffic offenders, made them write it longhand or recite it. Wyoming sends it with every set of license plates. The Port of New York Authority gives it to all motorists using the Holland Tunnel or the George Washington Bridge. Copies of it accompany all official correspondence of the Province of Ontario...
...courthouse lawn; a mail-order catalog soldier-with-bayonet in every public park; red paper poppies for sale in the streets; yearly "Conventions" with men in uniforms bowling down Main Street, slapping each other on the back, singing rowdy songs, drunk at the intersection trying to direct traffic with a cardboard whistle. Later, war movies, R. O. T. C. parades, University Gothic towers with memorial plaques, billboards plastered with legless, headless portraits labeled "The Horror of It." June 1935 at last and graduation, and even then commencement speakers shouting "Stand up for peace!" while newspapers bellowed "Be prepared...