"Don't go in," Doreen O'Leary, a Deli waitress, told passers-by last week.

When he told passers-by what he was working on, "their eyes lit up," Mr. Cronin said.

In 1925 a plaque was installed at the memorial to tell passers-by more about its subject.

Though she had told passers-by her name was Ann Smith, she has since given her name as Billy Boggs.

Ralph Steadman was said to have run down the street telling passers-by, including bewildered elderly ladies, that he had got 'one in Punch!'

Even Mrs. Cazer admits to the urge to carve her initials along the trails as a way of telling passers-by, "I helped build this trail."

'I love her,' he told passers-by.

At the East Tremont Avenue farmers' market, one worker advertises produce by telling passers-by that the food is so fresh "you can still see the dirt on it."

They told passers-by that they had killed a soldier to avenge the killing of Muslims by the British military.

"Feel Lipton Good," it tells passers-by.