Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks House Text Book Loan Library will open today, it has been announced. The loan Library has at present in the neighborhood of 5,000 text books which it lends to students in the University at the nominal sum of of $.25 a book. Upon the return of the book $.15 will be returned to the borrower...
...attorney could have such first hand information. . . . In my country had you made such an accusation against an officer of the law he would have smashed your face before you got out of the court room." Continuing, he suggested that Mrs. de Luca should move out of the Negro neighborhood in which she lives, that she was unfortunate in her choice of counsel. The "atmosphere of a United States Court is novel to him." Then he climaxed: "Your client is now on her way to jail. Do you want to go along with...
...Louisiana, St. Bernard Parish, a riverside neighborhood below New Orleans, was the scene of shooting, clubbing, screaming, money-grabbing, hacking with axes, punitive bonfires. Huey P. Long, youthful, tempestuous, theatrical, newly-installed Governor of Louisiana, had been busying himself with whirlwind reforms in various departments of the State, when he heard that two St. Bernard gambling houses had dared to reopen despite his warning. He issued and personally taxied with an order to the Adjutant General to call out a raiding party of the National Guard. The offending establishments, facing each other in the same street, were the Jai-Alai...
Despite such positive disclaimers of mystery, the London press persisted. The Daily Express found its reporters "rebuffed in all attempts" to get information. But lynx-eyed newsgatherers discovered "a complete secretariat" and a number of other (unnamed) oil officials concealed in the castle, or, more mysteriously, "in its neighborhood...
Idiosyncrasies. From an island in New York Harbor where the city's refuse is burnt, a smoky stench pervades the neighborhood. It bothers some people of the city. They sicken peculiarly because, health officials have just declared, the proteins in the smoke are poisonous to them. Other communities whose refuse is burned, unwittingly suffer in a like manner. Some of their people are bound to have an idiosyncrasy for the smoke, just as other people are sickened by strawberries, bananas or tomatoes, by plant pollens, by cocain or morphine. Just why, scientists have not yet learned. It is impossible...