Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smooth, we are headed for the Sargasso Sea* and expect to resume our trawling and dredging there, which we had to abandon in March owing to high seas." Such was last week's, news of Explorer William Beebe, whose last wireless, reports (TIME, May 11) came from the neighborhood of Galapagos in the Pacific...
...Grand Street Follies (Third Edition). The Neighborhood Players will not dim the glitter of their reputations by the third edition of their follies. A purification committee inspects Manhattan's entertainments and, in a series of plays within the play, one gets a satyr's-eye view of the season's theatricals. The items include...
Lord Derby, sportsman and statesman, is the latest peer to sell part of his estates. Last week, for a price said to be in the neighborhood of five million dollars, he disposed of his Bury and Pilkington estates in Lancashire to Messrs. Green of Chesterfield. The estates comprise about 5,000 acres, on which are 50 farms, 500 houses and some 2,000 leaseholds...
...Fosdick made minor conditions which were also accepted: his salary is not to exceed $5,000; he must continue his teaching at Union Theological Seminary; a larger church, seating 2,500, must be built in the neighborhood of Columbia University, several miles from the residential district in which the church is now located. And also, as a graceful gesture, Dr. Fosdick could not accept until the Presbyterian General Assembly officially refused to permit the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to take him back into its pulpit. It was thought that the church members would follow their leaders in accepting the Fosdick...
Where the Neighborhood Playhouse finds its actors is difficult to say. Certainly it finds good ones. The company has an evenness and a flair for the ridiculous unequaled since Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) and Gertrude Lawrence entertained with Chariot's extraordinary revue...