Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...department stores. Thin and bandy-legged men stand on street corners in red suits ringing cow bells. On envelopes are little green stamps emblazoned with the cross of the crusades. An old woman in the South End stares out a dirty window into a dirty street at a delivery truck painted red and green. Young girls in Beacon Hill loop up to a candle smiling winsomely through lace curtains. Mail men stoop beneath vast leather bags full of hopeful verse in bad metre and worn out welcomes. Shop girls run over their heels and smile in tried silence. Fat dowagers...
...arrived last week to agitate "as a private citizen" for a pardon for Thomas Mooney. As he got off the Oakland ferry, Mayor Angelo Rossi and Mayor Walker's old friend Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. seemed glad enough to see him. A band perched in a truck played "The Sidewalks of New York" and the Governor's jaunty theme song "Happy Days Are Here Again."Noisy crowds shouted cheerful impertinences. Mrs. Mary Mooney, 80, mother of Prisoner Mooney who was convicted along with Warren K. Billings of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day Parade...
Frankie was a Boston Italian, second generation, so he could talk like a Heming-wayman and get away with it: his mother did not speak English so good. Frankie had left a fair job in a factory for a much better one, driving a truck for Bootlegger Visconti. His hours were long but he worked only one day a week. Good & bad luck hit Frankie about the same time. He met Rosie at a dance hall, and he got a warning from a rival 'legger that hereafter his weekly trip would not be safe...
...minds what to do about the warning. He was offered a better job with his boss's rival, but he was afraid of his boss. Finally he just let everything slide while he had a good time with Rosie. But on the next trip the truck was held up, his partner was shot. Frankie figured out that by the time he got back to Boston the gunmen would be after him as the only witness of the shooting, so he lay low for a few days. When he went back to Boston to see Rosie she had gone...
...store. Cliff was out at lunch when big, jovial Mr. Leavitt marched in. Later Store keeper Dailey returned and stopped to wait on a woman. Visitor Leavitt sauntered to the rear of the store. There at a sink behind a partition he found a man who looked like a truck driver swigging whiskey from a bottle...