Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This horrifying testimony was supported by Mrs. Viola M. Anglin, of the City Magistrate's courts, New York City, who said that every New York child who was at all acquainted with his neighborhood could direct one to a speakeasy. The committee listened with particular keenness when she told the tale of a woman who had been deserted by a bootlegger-husband and then turned bootlegger herself, much to the material advancement of her children...
There is little to say of Colonel Coolidge, save that he was a man of affairs in a tiny Vermont village. He was born on March 31, 1845, schooled in the neighborhood at the same schools his son later attended. He began his career as a wheelwright, then he rented the general store. At 27 he was elected to the state legislature, served six terms, and added to them one term in the state Senate. His title of Colonel came to him when Governor Stickney appointed him to the gubernatorial staff. He was local tax-collector for 38 years, postmaster...
...Neighborhood Playhouse last week interrupted the run of The Dybbuk with a triple bill of light music. The three are A Burmese Pwe; Hayden's opera-bouffe, The Apothecary; and Kuan Yin, a Chinese fantasy. They combine into one of the most graceful and thoroughly satisfactory entertainments that the town now boasts. The Burmese piece depicts the general good time to be had by all when a wealthy host gives a party. The Apothecary is light and whimsical, and the Chinese piece has bits of Russian and a dash of good old Broadway. Albert Carroll and the resident Neighborhood troupe...
...Jackson won his way into the third round with a victory over E. E. O'Neil of the Harvard Club. The second member of the Crimson contingent to reach the third round was R. L. Debevoise '29, leader of the 1929 racquet swingers, who downed Carl Pfaffman of the Neighborhood Club of Boston, last Saturday. P. R. Pease '26, who played in the fourth position for the University seconds during their victorious season went into the third round with a well earned triumph over R. T. Youngman of the Union Boat Club last week...
...DYBBUK - An alien legend of Jewish superstition, magnificently produced at the little Neighborhood Playhouse...