Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that our bombs exploded the ammunition dump and the crash of the boxes of dynamite, cartridges and so forth turned the neighborhood of the station into an inferno...
Tonight the Glee Club gives a concert at the Neighborhood Club of Quincy, sponsored by the Harvard Club of that town. Following the performance will be a dance...
...snapped, "We won't fight over the body." Dick Whitney surrendered, was booked at the Elizabeth St. police-station while a group of Bowery derelicts were momentarily herded from the desk. After the prisoner had been searched, Desk Lieutenant Simon P. Breen remarked as though one of the neighborhood boys had gone wrong: "Mr. Whitney, I'm sorry to see you in this trouble and wish you luck...
Died. Rachel Peixotto Hays Sulzberger, 77, mother of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times; widow of the late Philanthropist Cyrus L. Sulzberger; herself an active social worker (United Neighborhood Houses, New York parks Anti-Litter Committee, Aguilar Library Association); after long illness; in Manhattan...
While Hawley spoke of "the beginning of some elevated highway construction in cities before long," and mentioned the fact that it has been tried in small cities, he doubted if they could be economically justified. "Their cost will be in the neighborhood of $5,000,000 a mile in our larger cities, considering both construction costs and damages to abbutors, and then will be useful only to those having long distances to travel...