Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your further information, the new site for the Temple Emanu-El at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave. and 65th St. was sold, not by Vincent Astor as you reported, but by Benjamin Winter, who bought the famous Astor residence last spring. He also is the present owner of the historic W. K. Vanderbilt mansion at 52nd St. and Fifth Ave., described in your same issue...
...Newark, N. J., a little man named Gustave Zobel, 70, stood in an artificial beard and a preposterous red coat, on a street corner, ringing a small bell. By performing this simple act for a certain number of hours every day he earned enough money for food and bed. Why it should give joy to anyone to see him standing in the cold wind tinkling a dinner clapper was more than Mr. Zobel could determine, but since The Volunteers of America were ready to pay for such mummery, it was not his part to find fault. He attracted a good...
...menace at Plympton and Mount Auburn streets certainly deserves immediate attention. We part time citizens of this lively neighborhood of tooting horns and screeching brakes have often wondered that so intelligent a community should be so unheedful of its health, for this corner is not unique in the Cambridge Boston traffic tangled. Time and again the tailor across from the Lampoon has been obliged to remove pieces of automobile from his window and shop. Indeed he is now building new steps to withstand the assaults of duelling autoists. The old ones supported many a truck in its expiring moments...
...either case, the Traffic Department is at fault. It would be very easy to put at least a Flashing Beacon at this corner such as they have at other corners that have merited the attention of the Department perhaps less than this one. Something could be done about this matter very cheaply...
...suppose that if something were done, it would deprive the student body of a great diversion, but some day one of us is going to get hurt and then things will seem a great deal different. Meanwhile this corner remains a constant and serious menace to traffic, and stands as a shining example of the much touted protection that we are paying taxes for. DURYEA H. JONES...