The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.

It is always difficult, or at least time-consuming, to get approval of any kind of line under a public street, as one example.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

Downtown Los Angeles is already two-thirds freeway, interchange, street, parking lot and garage -- one of those preposterous `` if '' statistics has already come to pass.

The downtown store continues to offer the great inducement of variety, both within its gates and across the street, where other department stores are immediately convenient for the shopper who wants to see what is available before making up her mind.

Public relations strategists everywhere, watching the reaction of the German press, the liberal press, the lunatic-fringe press, listening to their neighbors, studying interviews with men and women on the street, cried out: Too much, too much -- the mind of the audience is becoming dulled, the horrors are losing their effect.

This is particularly acute for those who attended Midwood High School directly across the street from Brooklyn College.

One of the offices slated for reconstruction is the aged Court of Claims, diagonally across the street from the White House.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

He is the sort who, with an appraising eye, would cross the street to help a strange woman on to a bus and then pinch her.

Winsett is a quiet street with no taverns and was completely deserted at that hour.

Pennsylvania Avenue, named for one of the original 13 states, perhaps is not the most impressive street in the District of Columbia from a commercial standpoint.

So it is too with many other spirits which we all know: the spirit of Nazism or Communism, school spirit, the spirit of a street corner gang or a football team, the spirit of Rotary or the Ku Klux Klan.

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

" The American visitor " once again is an alert spectator of Parisian life " and " the street noises and French atmosphere are triumphant.

Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.

A street sign in Vienna, " Fußgeher " is normally replaced with " Fußgänger " ( in English " Pedestrian ") in Germany.

The restoration of London progressed through the later half of the 880s and is believed to have revolved around a new street plan, added fortifications in addition to the existing Roman walls, and, some believe, the construction of matching fortifications on the South bank of the River Thames.

* A street in Belgrade ( Serbia ), next to the Belgrade University Library which is one of the Carnegie libraries, is named in his honor.

It is the oldest railway tunnel beneath a city street in North America.

A deep ditch separated the city from its " suburb ;" its location is today marked by a wide street named " Graben " ( meaning Ditch ).

However, a special event to mark the signing is held every year on the 6th of April and involves a street procession and short piece of street theatre.

Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

The promenade, for example, continues to take place on the Chahar Bagh, a mile-long garden of plane and poplar trees that now serves as the city's principal street.

Highways go to a new Department of Highways, sewers to the Department of Public Works, such street cleaning as Borough Presidents now do ( in Queens and Richmond ) to the Sanitation Department.

He looked wildly around, at the now empty street, at the mud, at the rain.

Across the street on my right I saw the Hippodrome, now a park.

Just before coming to the mosque entrance I crossed the street, entered the Hippodrome, and walked ahead to the Obelisk of Theodosius, originally erected in Heliopolis in Egypt about 1,600 B.C. by Thutmose, who also built those now in New York, London and Rome at the Lateran.

The white policeman standing on a Harlem street corner finds himself at the very center of the revolution now occurring in the world.

There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

Well, now she can sleep in the street for all I care ''!!

This street pattern has been preserved through Jerusalem's later history ; the western cardo is Suq Khan ez-Zeit ( Olive-oil Inn Market ), the southern decumanus is both the Street of the Chain and Suq el-Bazaar ( Bazaar Market ; called David Street by Israelis ), the eastern cardo is Al-wad Road ( Valley road ), and the northern decumanus is now the Via Dolorosa.

It reflects the use of the word " costume " to refer to what is now called an " outfit "; for example, a " handsome street costume of maroon brown velvet ".

* In the early 1970s, Ted Patrick — a man with plenty of street smarts but, at the time, no formal training in counseling — believed that members of his family were being brainwashed by David Berg, the leader of a group called the Family International, now known as " The Family.

Hogmanay now covers four days of processions, concerts and fireworks, with the street party commencing on Hogmanay.

The area where Green Hedges once stood is now occupied by houses and a street called Blyton Close.

Greenwich Village was allowed to keep the 18th century street pattern of what is now the West Village: areas west of the 18th century Greenwich Lane ( now Greenwich Avenue ) and the early 20th century Sixth Avenue, which were already built up when the plan was implemented, resulting in a neighborhood whose streets are dramatically different, in layout, from the ordered structure of newer parts of town.

Some governments and organizations are now considering, or have already implemented, full cutoff fixtures in street lamps and stadium lighting.

In 1952, Porsche constructed an assembly plant ( Werk 2 ) across the street from Reutter Karosserie ; the main road in front of Werk 1, the oldest Porsche building, is now known as Porschestrasse.

His farm, called the " Bouwerij " – the seventeenth-century Dutch word for farm – was the source for the name of the Manhattan street The Bowery, and the chapel facing Bouwerie's long approach road ( now Stuyvesant Street ) became St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.

Early in June 1899, while home on leave, he had a chance encounter in a London street with Clements Markham ( now knighted and RGS President ), and learned for the first time of an impending Antarctic expedition under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society.

' True ' stock car racing, which consists of only street vehicles that can be bought by general public, is sometimes now called Street Stock, Pure Stock, Showroom Stock, or U-Car racing.

On 26 May 1919, the government passed a law to open the Yerevan State University, which was situated on the main street of Yerevan, the Astafyan ( now Abovyan ) street.