Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commodore Nutt because of his dissolute reputation, when he begged her hand in rivalry with General Thumb. The General's virtue was deemed above suspicion, though on Sept. 20, 1854, the Illustrated London News reported that "a lady, from excess of fantasy, eloped with him to the neighborhood of Guilligomach...
Americana. The success of the concentrated and often semiprofessional revues of the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Theatre Guild juniors has inspired a strictly professional show of the same dimensions. J. P. McEvoy, newspaper satirist and author of The Potters, wrote the sketches, and a vast variety of folk, including George Gershwin, Con Conrad, Philip Charig and Henry Souvaine, the music. Roy Atwell and a vaudeville performer named Lew Brice are the leading performers and the show appears at the tiny Belmont Theatre. It is a small but wiry show, often immensely entertaining...
...Vetchen's availability as a President is not lessened by his directorates on the Nickel Plate Railroad, the Advance-Rumley Co. (agricultural implements) and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The State Bank has resources of $66,000,000, is well organized, prodigiously profitable, but rather a neighborhood affair as great banks go at present. It hopes that Banker Van Vechten can wrap the purple of prestige about his new colleagues, lead them to diocesan power...
Three banks in the Miami neighborhood withstood serious runs during the week: Bank of Hollywood, Bank of Allapattah, Bank of Hialeah...
...reminiscent of "a whipped puppy and a grocer's assistant in his Sunday best"; Juliet's father who uses "men's words" and hates Miss Tiverton, who has never called. The anonymous author is presumably a charming sensitive lady with no nonsense about her. She understands neighborhood metaphysics. Rowdy...