Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, small Murray Folkoy, 6, was playing in the street as he had been told not to do. When the principal of the public school where Murray Folkoy attended kindergarten called him into her study on the third floor, Murray Folkoy was scared. He did not expect her to beat him, he did not even know whether she would speak severely or not. But he did know vaguely that whatever she said would break the gay delight he had discovered in going to kindergarten; it could never be so merry and beautiful again. Finally, miserable, full of an unexplainable despair...
...Philadelphia reaching across the Delaware, with a span of 1,750 ft.; 2) the Peekskill (Bear Mountain) bridge over the Hudson-1,632 ft.; 3) the Williamsburg bridge over the East River-1,600 ft. The new bridge is to be 3,192 ft.-twice the length of the Brooklyn Bridge...
...soldier, runs away to New York from the old soldiers' home and, for purposes of protection only, carries along tall and innocent Alice Kibbe, 17. Alice he finds in a bad house, where she by no means belonged. Vicissitudes carry them to live on a scow near a Brooklyn dump heap. Here they meet a rich gentleman who has lost his memory. After much todo, Alice reaches the arms of the restored man of property, and the old soldier hears bugles calling as the curtain falls slowly on a preposterous yarn, told with undeniable but sometimes unmistakably forced charm...
...education behind him at Amherst, he married and became a minister. A little man with a juicy, passionate face, he charmed the women of every congregation before which he preached. Men, as a rule, did not like him. After a period of years he found himself at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, the pastor of a flock of golden sheep, from whose charge he derived a yearly income of $20,000, even now a generous stipend for any preacher. No doubt Henry Ward Beecher deserved such recompense for his services; he was called the most eloquent preacher since St. Paul; women fainted...
From among the third year men the following were elected: George Ezra Dave. Pomona '24, of Pasadena, Cal.; Abraham Howard Feller, Columbia '25, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; James Pinkney Hart, University of Texas '25, of Austin, Texas; Joseph Henry Head, Yale '25, of Hillsboro, Ohio; John Edwards Lock-wood, Williams '25, of New York, and Kingsley Arter Taft, Amherst '25, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio...