Word: mayfair
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...city where 288 murders last year marked a 17-year low, people don’t get too upset about one more. Rather, the outrage was directed at the press for misreporting the crime’s location as Tacony, when everyone knew that it happened in Mayfair, the next neighborhood over...
According to one woman, there is an official in the 15th police precinct with a vendetta against Tacony and all its residents. “Whenever something bad happens, the police say it’s in Tacony. When something good happens, they call it Mayfair...
Maybe there is some mysterious minister of misinformation torpedoing Tacony’s reputation, but given that Tacony and Mayfair interlock like two Tetris pieces, the report was probably just a mistake. Tacony and Mayfair blend together with dozens of other neighborhoods to make up the sprawling morass of row homes and factories, which we Philadelphians call the “Great Northeast.” And yet the borders between neighborhoods are a source of much contention...
...proportions: Harvard or Yale. She didn’t compare professors, student politics or dorms. She didn’t scan course catalogs. Instead, she pored over the club listings in Bluegrass Unlimited magazine. Unimpressed by New Haven’s sparse offerings, Brown packed her bags and her Mayfair banjo for Cambridge’s thriving bluegrass scene...
...years that followed, Margaret indulged herself in a lifestyle that took a toll on both her health and her popularity. "She was not our favorite royal," said a 40 - ish Mayfair manicurist last week. "We resented having our tax money going to support her hedonistic lifestyle." Margaret smoked - up to 60 cigarettes day at one point - and drank heavily. Her name was linked with a variety of men, in particular Roderick Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 17 years her junior with whom she had an affair that lasted several years...