Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have told Natalia that if she writes another novel before she is 18 years old, I don't know what I shall do." Thus the mother of Brooklyn's prodigious 12-year-old. whose poetic flights since the age of nine (The Janitor's Boy, Lava Lane)) have floored the pundits, made good Poet Erwin Markham grumble into his beard (TIME, Nov. 23, MISCELLANY) and won her an invitation to join the Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers (Poet Thomas Hardy, President), the first invitation to any American since that other, rubicund Brooklynite, Walt Whitman...
...John Cardinal Bonzano, legate of the Pope to this Congress, had been greeted in princely fraternity by Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York. This was in New York bay, where yachts, sailboats, rowboats, tugs, scows interfered with the decorum of such rencontre. Boats and factories from Jersey City to Brooklyn tied down their whistles. The legate was receiving a Metropolitan welcome...
...Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn LL.D...
...BELLAMY Brooklyn...
...offer. It is certain that a member of the International Typographical Union will not have to go to a judge in a criminal court and ask to be confined in prison so he will have a place to eat and sleep, as one printer recently did in Brooklyn...