Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tumble-down little house overlooking a backyard dump in Pittsburgh, newshawks found a tattered sexagenarian living on relief funds, identified him as William Andrew Mellon, first cousin of one-time Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. Said Cousin William: 'T need this place because I can read, study, think and dream. . . . Andy has been sending me money monthly...
While her parents were squabbling about her income, small Shirley Temple was last week playing in the backyard of her Santa Monica home. She has two brothers, Jack, 18, and George, 14, neither of whom has appeared in cinema. Not yet old enough to go to school, Shirley Temple expects to do so in September. Aware that she receives fan mail she has none of it read to her lest it make her egocentric. When not on strike, Shirley is taken to the studio by her mother, who says "sparkle, Shirley, sparkle!" when her daughter starts a scene...
...Vinita, Okla., Raymond Brock stood in his backyard happily burning his oldest suit. He had just celebrated the saving of $1,000 by buying a new suit, was celebrating the new suit by burning the old. Happily he poked at the charred cloth. Out of the ashes rolled all that was left of Raymond Brock...
...Independence, approved of dancing and cigarets. Or at least he did not disapprove of them. In little old Setauket, on Long Island's North Shore, that set up eddies of talk behind green-shuttered windows whenever he walked down the street. Plump, rich Julia Smith, in whose backyard is the grave of an ancestor killed in the Revolution, was especially upset. She was president of the Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston heard about it, of course, but he had been a pastor too long to pay much attention...
...hall ceilings. Refuse piles up in airshafts 15 feet deep. Basements are cluttered with rags and tinder. The better tenements have one toilet to a floor, but when one block was recently razed, the only sanitary facility discovered was a row of holes in a board in the backyard. Garbage is tossed out windows. In some, a match struck in the halls will illumine the foul air as if it were a fog. Death, pestilence, starvation and crime scurry unchecked through the dank rookeries of the Ghetto, Red Hook, Harlem and San Juan Hill. Slums have been a festering social...