Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned to prostitution for extra money because her "habit" demanded 50 to 60 capsules of heroin a day. In her endless search for drugs, almost every corner of the city had become a hunting ground; she named scores of drugstores, bars, restaurants, hotels, schools and nightclubs from The Bronx to Coney Island where she had purchased...
John T. Batura, New York City fireman, his wife Anna and their two youngsters, Barbara, 5, and Richard, 4, marched into The Bronx's Montefiore Hospital for thorough examinations last week. Nurses and doctors made detailed case histories of all the ailments the Baturas have ever had, gave them top-to-toe physical tests. Later, a psychiatric social worker gave them a going-over. None of the Baturas was ill, but they were making U.S. medical history...
...Film Critic Virginia Graham, in a bittersweet review of Born Yesterday: The stars' performances "leave nothing to be desired-that, at least, is the impression left by this film, an impression which it is extraordinarily clever of it to make seeing that, as it is written in Bronx, only one out of every ten words is comprehensible. I remember once being similarly impressed by a film in Chinese...
Makoko drowned Sunday at the Bronx Zoo. He lumbered outside to his six-foot moat early in the afternoon. While 1,000 New Yorkers watched, he fell...
...school, who came to the U.S. from his native London in 1924, stayed on to appear in more than 60 roles on Broadway (Hedda Gabler) and Hollywood (Frenchman's Creek); ex-husband of Actresses Ruth Chatterton and Heather Angel; of post-operative pneumonia; in The Bronx...