Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chapters: "Modern Man and Girl"; "Modern Exactions of Courtesy" (smoking, radio, punctuality, telephone manners); "Etiquette in Washington and State Capitals" (An Ambassador precedes the Chief Justice and a Cardinal comes before both); "American Neighborhood Customs" (rules for the hinterland); "Restaurant Etiquette"; "The Vanished Chaperon and Other Lost Conventions...
...mansion, full of gilt and marble, which John D. Rockefeller built years ago in West 54th Street for his son John D. Jr. She now dwells, and conducts prophetic services for a small band of followers in a lushly-furnished duplex studio in West 57th Street, a neighborhood in which nourish many swamis and faith-healers...
...them. In their transplanted metropolitan hell, Tommy (Billy Halop), Dippy (Huntz Hall), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), T. B. (Gabriel Dell) and Milty (Bernard Punsly) again speak in the thickened explosives of New Yorkese, roast mickeys (potatoes) in street fires, harass the brass-buttoned doorman of the neighborhood's swank apartment house, defy a flatfoot (policeman), beat the dickens out of a rich kid (Charles Peck), plan a gang war. When the rich kid's old man tries to have Tommy pinched for copping his son's watch Tommy slashes him with a pocket knife...
...veterinarian named Solomon Shapera took a house in Eastchester, N. Y. three months ago, he made his presence known by placing upon his lawn a life-size statue of a St. Bernard dog painted in lively colors. Despite the fact that the statue is not iron but stone, the neighborhood named the dog "Iron Mike," but did not suppose there was much that could be done about it. Some people said that since it was Dr. Shapera's business to treat dogs, the statue was an advertisement and therefore violated a district zoning ordinance. The veterinarian retorted that...
...York and to coastal North Carolina. Soon after she returned to Washington late last week a young lady whom she had been putting up at the White House departed. Two years ago Mrs. Roosevelt met Roberta Jones, 19, of St. Petersburg, Fla. studying dancing at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse...