Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose neighbors are a deaf and dumb couple, owning their home and keeping it up a credit to the neighborhood, sending a flock of well-dressed children to the public school, doing their full duty to society as citizens, supporting the whole by a pay-check truly earned and regularly banked, may think of the couple as an exception. If he will multiply this couple by ten thousand, or more, he will have a more exact conception of the public status of the deaf and dumb...
...first half, the score was tied, 1 to 1. During the third quarter Harvard pressed the Blue and kept the ball in the neighborhood of Yale's goal, narrowly missing several goals, which were only prevented by the stellar work of Rudy as goal-keeper for Yale...
...investigations of racial types and mixtures in Yucatan is part of an extensive survey being made by the anthropology department in North Africa, Central America, and Mexico. Dr. Williams' recent investigations were made in the neighborhood of the ancient city of Chichen-Itza, which is being reconstructed by the Carnegie Institution...
...smiles at his consort, a fair but evil-tempered English girl. She plots his death with an envious sheik; he escapes through a secret door; awakes; relieved that life is monotonous, secure. This difficult, often beautiful fantasy was given by the resolute group that is left from the defunct Neighborhood Playhouse.* They gave it well on an obviously limited expense account. Why it has never been given by a commercial manager in Manhattan became apparent; it is only intermittently interesting to the audience...
Stubbornly sticking to its original, quiet neighborhood, The Players is not an actors' club in the popular sense.* The few that love it go there; a very few live there. There are card rooms and pool tables; soft chairs for reading; writing desks. In the back is a small garden around which runs a veranda where the members dine in summer. The club is always quiet, although from the peculiar demands of its actor members it stays open late at night. In these days Don Marquis may be often seen there; Jules Guerin, the painter; Otis Skinner; John Barrymore...