An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: a man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street.

Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, miss.

Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level.

But the urge would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money.

But with these tips, your first man-on-the-street interview experience can be easy.

Chamber orchestra: the orchestra plays at memorial hall at 1406 elm street, which offers several concerts from march through June.

David Dominoni, of Glasgow university, said that light from street lamps, takeaway signs and homes is affecting the birds' biological clocks, leading to them being wide awake when they should be asleep.

Drinking my iced coffee, I ran my fingers along the streets from the hotel to the opera hall.

Each interview that you get on the street shouldn't be longer than ten minutes.

Get rid of the street dirt.

However, within a few years, street sales of newspapers would be commonplace in eastern cities.

In its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck.

It is a truly delightful place, which looks the same as it must have done 100 years ago with its winding streets and pretty cottages.

It meant any inexpensive newspaper; perhaps more importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single copies on the street.

It only has one bedroom, but it sounds nice, near lake street.

It was a hot summer day that found me running down the street with a dollar in my sweaty hand.

Jane moved aimlessly down the tree-lined street, not knowing where she was heading.

Newly-built wooden cottages line the street, turning the old town into a dreamland.

Oh, here's one on market street.

On the street or in the park, she had only one thing on her mind: squirrels! She was so joyous that even on the worst days, she could make me smile.

Our mailman will arrive at 89 street, Chicago, 15374 at 5 o'clock, Monday afternoon.

People tend to take pride in keeping everything in their street fresh and inviting.

She told me that some of the children lived with an older lady in a shelter while others slept on the streets.

She'd watch me coming down her street, and by the time I'd biked up to her doorstep, there'd be a cold drink waiting.

Since finishing my studies at harvard and oxford, I've watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying wall street jobs.

The author mentions the joke to show Chicago's streets were extremely muddy.

The city of brussels was covered in snowmen—an impressive scene that told stories on every street corner.

The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty papers left.

The little pupil took his grandma by the arm and walked her across the street.

The man-on-the-street interview is an interview in which a reporter hits the streets with a cameraman to interview people on the sport.

The most obvious thing is that there is much more activity in the streets than in a typical US city.

The night she won olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets stopped.

The streets are clear, and many homes have been rebuilt.

There is a traffic jam on king street.

They performed their first concert in America at CBS Television's 53rd Street Studio.

This new trend of newspapers for \ the man on the street \ did not begin well.

This raised the level of the city's streets by as much as 12 feet.

This sounds very interesting! It's on South Street.

To think he is sleeping on the streets tonight when he could have stolen the money and paid for a place to stay in.

Wander among a variety of shops selling gifs while enjoying a live music show and nice street entertainment.

We'd love to explore beale street, the official home of the blues, where we'd listen to live music.

When walking down the street, I came across david, when I hadn't seen for years.

When your boss or professor sends you out to do man-on-the-street interviews for a story, think about the topic and develop a list of about ten general questions relating to it.

While the fear hung over my head, there were also signs that I was headed down the right street.

Unable to buy grain or grow their own, hungry people take to the streets.

At the most cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay.

Woolworths is one of the best known names on the British High Street.

The overthrown giants of Wall Street took the biggest knock, with average pay cuts of 38% and median bonuses of zero.

It is pretty much a one-way street.

And when joggers (慢跑者) jog, they don't run the streets.

She went to New York and invested on Wall Street.

She invested in stocks and shares on Wall Street

Not paying attention to his driving, McLaughlin turned right on main street in 33rd street and hit Volkswagen Rabbit.

They are really pretty little towns with lots of old housesand beautiful tree-lined streets.

Farmington, Utah, is a more pleasant community since a local girls' 4-H club improved Main Street.

The experience on Main Street stimulated self-improvement, and encouraged members to take pride in their home grounds and the total community

What do we learn about Main Street in Farmington?

When they see that carrier back out on the street, Swigart said, that's the first sign to them that life is starting to return to normal.

After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, mail facilities were set up in dozens of locations across the country in the two weeks that USPS was unable to provide street delivery.

At the most cutting-edge retail stores —Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay.

Later, in his cook books, he would often include a sketch of himself, so that people on the street would be able to recognize—and admire—him.

Police frequent the area day and night, as two months ago, a young man was shot just down the street.

The note inside the bottle said, Return to 419 Ocean Street and receive a reward of $150 from Richard and Tina pierce, owners of the Beachcomber Motel.

The sight of a mailman on the street is a reassuring sign of life becoming normal again.

To this end, Aclima has been collaborating with Google's Street view system.

Woolworths is one of the best known names on the British high Street.

With sufficient will in Downing Street this would have been done already.

By last year, Wall Street traders, bankers and those who deal in real estate generated 21% of the national income, double their share in the 1950s.

Newspapers relay daily accounts of goal-setting prevalent in industries and businesses up and down both Wall Street and Main Street , yet there has been surprisingly little research on how the long-trumpeted practice of setting goals may have contributed to the current economic crisis , and unethical （不道德的）behavior in general.

There aren't many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical—and rewarding—efforts.

This week's program Up Your Street takes you to Harrogate, a small town in Yorkshire.

A car that takes off from London street and lands in another random street is unlikely to happen,\ says Prof.

Or head out to the mall, or Main Street, look and shop, and buy.

The combination of computational power and engineering advances will eventually enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled, widespread use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving accidents and countless home and service-indus

We do random things like asking people in the street questions and testing sports clothing.

with sufficient will in Downing Street this would have been done already.