Word: alleyways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alleyway off Sago Lane in Singapore's Chinatown, beneath banners and scrolls and paper models of ships and planes, dozens of Chinese last week played mah-jongg by the light that gleamed from two adjoining houses. From inside the houses came a deafening cacophony of clanging cymbals, shrieking flutes and thumping drums. In the ancient Taoist tradition, the mah-jongg players had come to pay their last respects to friends and relatives who lay dying inside...
...plate-glass window site on Church Street. According to Mrs. Howe, who runs The Upper Story with her husband, "We're eight years old, actually, and I guess you might say we've grown right along with Harvard Square. We were located on the second floor in that little alleyway where the Coop bookstore is. We were the first of several second floor shops there...
...body of Larry Shelvey was found by Princeton police officers in an alleyway between the Colonial Bakery and Zinder's Store. He was taken to the Princeton Hospital where police surgeon P. C. Tan gave the boy emergency treatment...
...offer high price for all banned books. Do not burn them. Will you negotiate?" Hitler refused to negotiate, but Foyle got his name in the papers. Some of Foyle's publicity comes readymade: a few months ago, a tough who had been knifed in a nearby alleyway staggered into Foyle's, died on the floor of the murder mystery department. Sniffed suspicious Londoners: "Just another one of Foyle's stunts...
...physical facilities are concerned, Eliot has its good and bad sides. The good side looks out over the river or on one of the finest of the House courtyards. The bad sides boast not only a full view of the subway yards, but also an excellent lookout on the alleyway where food is brought into the central kitchen and garbage is noisily removed in the early hours of the morning...