Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentlemen then organized volunteer fire brigades whose uniforms outdazzled those of the Vigilantes and whose members fought freely for the privilege of breaking the first window at a blaze. For twelve years these fraternities added to the excitement of a city where it was noted that "a man cannot walk home of an evening without his head being round all quarters at once, on the lookout for a slung shot." In 1862 San Francisco acquired its first paid fire department. The next year a retired sea captain named William Holdredge started Fireman's Fund Insurance...
Futher research revealed that competition for the University's shortest name, far from being a walk away, is closely contested. Three candidates from China and one from Hawaii seem to be neck and neck at the amazing total of two letters each. They are, respectively, Y. Ku of Peiping, C. Y. Le of Nanking, P. S. Ou of Kwangsu, and H. K. M. Wu of Honolulu. Although there is probably no basis for awarding the palm to any particular one, Mr. P. S. Ou, by the originality of his cognomen, seems to be predominant...
Sharp at 8 p. m. in Chicago one evening last week, 450 of the 800 city-employed electrical workers pulled their switches, walked out on strike. Out blinked all 94.558 municipal street lights. Off went all traffic lights in the Loop. Along the Chicago River, which slices through the city's midsection, 38 of the 55 drawbridges rose up to stay. Honking automobiles, clanging streetcars, cursing pedestrians piled up at the open bridgeheads, turned to fight their way back. Policemen shouted into dead telephones; their inter-communicating system was useless. State Street was bright with its private lighting system...
...significance disturbed the fratricidal Spanish war last week, as the cold weather further congealed the stalemate. It was of passing interest that on the Saint's Day of Alfonso XIII, which fell last week, observances were celebrated all over the White half of Spain. "He was made to walk the Via Dolorosa carrying the burden of all of us," sentimentally observed San Sebastian's typical Dvario Vasco. "He cannot walk back along this thorny path; but, a Spaniard before a Monarch, he will be the first to rejoice in a free, strong Spain." As the Saint...
...Museum the revolutionary tracts which were to alter the world. Trotsky, always impatient, rushed immediately to Lenin's house and routed him out just before dawn. The majestically calm genius of Lenin and the excited, flashing genius of Trotsky led then and there to a long, foggy, disputatious walk in the vicinity of Westminster Abbey...