Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aldo Parceno. Aged 14, equipped with a new suit, anticipating a party and gifts, Aldo Parceno of Brooklyn went to school to get his final term marks. The list of graduates was read out. Aldo was not mentioned. He inquired. There was no mistake. He went home. His mother was ready with a piece of his favorite cake and a cup of coffee. "I'm not to graduate," he said. He went into the bathroom. . . . His brother Salvatore, aged 10, came home in time to find Aldo, gas tube in his mouth, unconscious. He was saved...
...known the cause. Nor does he know yet, although, he said last week, he has developed a treatment which has seemed to cure more than 200 cases. Just what the scientific basis of his treatment is he planned to tell first to the Clinical Society of Unity Hospital, Brooklyn, where he is the attending dentist...
Fifteen Congregational ministers sat in old Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, last week and solemnly listened to the quizzing of newly resigned President James Stanley Durkee of Howard College about his faith. As solemnly he answered them; called the Bible "a library of 66 books," no one having been written in any relation to the others, each bearing the stamp of its time and reflecting the varying "excellences and limitations of its author"; said of the Gospel: "It is not a narcotic to superinduce numbness or oblivion to the wrongs of this life. It is a trumpet blast echoing along...
...local "drives" that are to be held to raise $5,000,000. The quota assigned to New York City was modest in proportion to its size and wealth-$100 each from only 4,000 Fundamentalists. But the Bryanites were sure the metropolis must harbor at least that many. A Brooklyn undertaker and three clergymen were the first assistants engaged by one Malcolm M. Lockhart, onetime solicitor for the Near East Relief, who now styled himself "militant Fundamentalist" and headed the Manhattan drive. Driver Lockhart was prepared to issue certificates, each carrying a vote on the university's board...
...this, his fourth play of the season, (The Noose, success, Lily Sue, not a success, Hangman's House, flop) he enacts the leading role himself. He is a smooth-tongued criminal lawyer, who could convince any jury of twelve men that "even if his client did steal the Brooklyn Bridge, the city didn't need the thing, anyhow." Among his achievements is securing the acquittal of a political friend charged with being the father of an illegitimate child. The able lawyer's "women folks" object to his consorting with politically influential bums, whereupon he beseeches them "not to go over...