Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author in 1894 of the words of Al Smith's latterday campaign song, ''The Sidewalks of New York"; of cancer; in Manhattan. Mamie O'Rourke, Nellie Shannon, Johnny Casey and Jimmy Crowe, who "tripped the light fantastic" in Blake's lyric, had been his childhood playmates. Though the song still sells 5,000 copies a year, it brought only $5,000 to Blake and Composer Charles Lawlor, who died penniless in 1925. Pensioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, Blake was hospitalized during his last illness through the offices of Citizen Smith...
Mothers of Drunkards may often be to blame for their sons' habits, Dr. James Hardin Wall of White Plains, N. Y. concluded after finding that a goodly number of drunks in his charge had been pampered, spoiled, overprotected in childhood. As adults "they loved to talk, were fond of singing and were inveterate users of tobacco, indicating rather strong oral cravings and demands for satisfaction." They enjoyed male drinking companions. They were only 18 years on the average when they started drinking, drank up to a quart a day. They had "a craving for the blissful state of infantile...
...challenge of unemployment in a two-room flat on Third Avenue, where Mary Young and her son, Rob, eke out their days, Rob having had no work for thirteen months. To them, bearing a Thanksgiving day basket, comes a woman of wealth who turns out to have been a childhood playmate of Mary Young; Mr. Smith avoids the most obvious inducements to sentimentality in this situation, but he nevertheless asks us to believe at the end that Rob is exultant because the woman from Fifth Avenue has told him that her son must start at the bottom in his father...
Artist Hoover was born 27 years ago in Cuba, N. Y. where her father, a civil engineer, was laying railroad track. Part of her childhood she spent in the town of Snow Shoe, Pa. In Washington, D. C. she used to attend art classes at the Corcoran Art School but her real ambition was to be a ballet dancer. Just out of high school she won a beauty contest, and in the ensuing years did almost everything from performing in the Vanities and dancing in a Coney Island hotel to teaching swimming at a girls' camp and operating...
Taking courage, she began, with the sober relish of childhood, to empty her raised skirt of rich, crumbling cake. Then she paused, frowning uneasily. Should she have stolen...