Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Providence, R.I., about 40% of all the high-school students hold jobs. In Connecticut cities (Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, New Britain) 4,748 out of 17,295 students work outside school hours-apart from those in street trades and domestic jobs. Half of 10,213 Seattle high-school students are working part time. Over 60% of the upper graders in a Pennsylvania school had jobs, as did 92% of the seniors in a Midwestern boys' technical school. In 1940 there were about 1,000,000 14-17-year-olds at work; now there are about...
...things like that." Said 48-year-old Joe Levy of the Mid-State Drug Co., secretary of the Association: ". . . Only 30 or 40 has signed the code. It's mostly a matter of I just got married on July 1 and I haven't had time to go around and see everybody." But, said another: "I would say that the main aim somebody had to come along and tell...
Focus and locus of most of Author Mitchell's studies is the environs of McSorley's Old Ale House, which for 88 years has resisted change just off Cooper Square, where Manhattan's skidroad-the Bowery-ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead...
...interested in a fragment of his Oral History. Says Joe: "Willkie called his book One World. Mine will be called A Million Worlds. There are as many worlds as there are people, each having his own world. " Asked whether he liked his own world, Joe said: "I haven't decided...
Work Horse. New Orleans proved less seductive than New Haven. Judah got a job with a notary, studied law in his spare time. Admitted to the bar, he promptly married Natalie St. Martin, a Creole girl with "the voice of a prima donna." She liked parties in the Vieux Carré. Judah preferred to work like a horse. When Natalie left him to live in Paris, he worked harder than ever...