Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ALBERT M. MALLIN Brooklyn...
...Lane Miller, pastor of the Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church (Brooklyn), viewed the incident as a challenge to Christians of the U. S. to consider "how their own country is drifting...
Monsignor John L. Belford, rector of the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity (Brooklyn) said: "I think we should keep the statue of Buddha out of the park by all means...
...Brooklyn, one Rachael Galpern, 14, was taking a hot soap-bath before going to a party. Hearing a slight scratching in the ceiling above her, she raised her eyes in time to see a pointed grey face peer at her from a hole in the plaster. The hole widened, the thin mortar crumbled, and an enormous black rat fell into the water with her, splashed about, caressed her with its clammy paws and insolently ogled her. Rachael screamed; Mrs. Galpern rushed in and killed the rat with a poker. That evening at the party when a little boy exclaimed...
...Brooklyn, a fish peddler (Giacomo Puleo) and a laundry-wagon driver (William Levine) left their horses uncovered in a storm. Haled to court they were sent to stand coatless, hatless, for 15 minutes in the winter rain. Magistrate Golden said: "Now you know what it feels like...