Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bernard Mannes Baruch, who was an active and great stock market operator before he became President Wilson's War aid, returned to Wall Street last week by renting offices in the neighborhood. He intends to supervise his large investments, not to barter. His son Bernard M. Baruch Jr. recently bought a seat on the New York Exchange...
...spark ignited the lurking mine gas. Rescuers pressed in, passing by corpses, to look for survivors, carrying canaries to test the air. At the shaft mouths, miners' families waited in silence. A score of bodies were taken out, then a dozen more. Rescued men told their stories. The neighborhood and the industry mourned, condoled, tried to forget...
...neighborhood was shaken awake, showered and riddled with flying ragged slugs and chunks of metal. The front of the Elliott house yawned wretchedly in the night. People stumbled down the street to see. The police riot squad swept up. All yammered and exclaimed over the explosion, little realizing the full justice of its result. Robert G. Elliott, Mrs. Elliott and their children all came out of their house unhurt...
...within the buildings of the neighborhood grey-faced clerks squealed instructions at each other; boys with skins like cellar-grown mushrooms pattered to and fro; nervous bookkeepers scratched names of stocks and bond issues along blue cross lines, drew pothooks down between red and green lines. Theirs was the moil of days, nights* and holidays caused by 3 and 4 million share days...
...housing and population is entirely contrary to the general scheme of things in that part of Lake Forest. . . . We left Winnetka [modest Chicago suburb regarded by some as a stepping-stone to Lake Forest, by others as a model community] because of numerous small houses built in our neighborhood...