Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, Doris Stansky, 2, knew not why doctors linked her blood system to that of her father, Joseph Stansky, milk wagon driver, and pumped his blood into her. She was affected by general blood poison, caused by an injury (of un- known origin) to her left hand. A neighborhood doctor, summoned during the night, had said her pain was due to "a little rheumatism" and ordered applications of cold water. She is kept living by the blood transfusion and by a mechanism of tubes through which liquid nourishment is let seep directly into her veins. Normal feeding is impossible...
...Manhattan, the endowed Neighborhood Playhouse, introducer to the U. S. of The Dybbuk and other famed plays, announced that it would close its doors at the close of the current season, pending material expansion prompted by success...
...Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Co-operative Trust Co. occupied ground floor space. They vacated, leaving to Mr. Loft fine banking fixtures worth $150,000. When salvaging junkmen offered him only $25,000 for all the equipment, he decided that for such an amount he might well play as a neighborhood banker himself. His bank, created last week, has capital of $750,000, surplus of $250,000; is named Emerald National Bank & Trust...
...bromide stood in the neighborhood...
Respectable Brooklynites grew vexed at the slurs which the Crime Commission made on the Red Hook children. Said a priest of the neighborhood: "When I look at these beautiful innocent little children, so quiet and nice in manner, I have a feeling that they are entirely too gentle and soft for the rough world that awaits them...