Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Memorial Hall. Fire Station--during the course of time it becomes apparent that the fire engines here keep pretty busy. Explanation lies in the fact that Harvard has the city of Cambridge's central fire station in its backyard, even as Harvard Square lios geographically in the center of the city...
...morning early in July the wife of Dee Wyatt, Negro sharecropper living on the banks of White River near Newport, Ark. shuffled out to her backyard pump, drew a bucket of water, groaned a mite as she paused to rest her back. Casually she glanced across the turgid river, then shrieked and scurried into the ramshackle house after her husband. Dee Wyatt popped his head out, took one look, and straightway headed for the home of Bramlett Bateman, nearest white farmer. He and his wife, he informed Farmer Bateman, had seen a monster. Neither of them had been drinking. Farmer...
Noticing a "For Rent" sign on a vacant farmhouse near Chicago's suburban Deerfield, a passerby stopped in to look around. In the backyard he heard feeble whimpers coming from a little shack, smashed a window. Braving a nauseous stench, he crawled inside, found six Scotch terriers huddled in a corner. Obviously near death from stifling and starvation, the six little dogs were rotting bags of bones, their teeth and gums infected, their bodies covered with shiny black spots where their hair had fallen...
...Reporter Rogers, sprawling St. Louis and its adjacent territory was as familiar as a backyard to a housewife. In high & low circles, friendly Rogers had hundreds of confidential contacts, known in newspaper shops as "pipelines." So persuasive was he that he sometimes was able to mesmerize criminals into confessions which made jailing or hanging evidence for the prosecutor as well as scoops for the Post-Dispatch...
Penrod & Sam (Warner). Even the audience which did not read Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories when they were the same age as the protagonists will catch some of the backyard necromancy of their childhood in this latter-day version of a Penrod sequel. To the audience which is reading them now, the greatest picture ever made would come out second-best to Penrod & Sam if coupled with it on a double bill. The plot contains more Warner Bros, than Tarkington, but the liberties do not affect the characters which, in the persons of the amazing children with which Hollywood...