Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheerful, prosperous-looking crowd of 15,000 gave President Roosevelt the warmest reception of his trip. There, as in other towns along his way, he saw good clothes, smiling faces, rows of new automobiles, was assured that, though crops had failed, Fed- eral relief money spent on neighborhood building and conservation projects had kept things humming. "I understand," cried he, "some people are not in favor of planning for the future. I understand some people object to spending now in order to save for the future. But it is real economy if you spend $1,000,000 now to save...
Pete was a pleasant-appearing, healthy, realistic Philadelphia boy who grew up in a neighborhood where he never had a chance. He spent a little time in a reform school, was mixed up in a few mild robberies, became a snappy dresser, a smooth dancer, a competent wisecracker, a good fighter who suffered the agreeable misfortune of being pursued by pretty, immoral girls who could not leave him alone. A shifty friend named Slavin got him a job in a bank, but just as Pete was beginning to get ahead, Slavin was arrested for theft...
...Hanna's claims, Nevada's one U. S. Representative James G. Scrugham (pronounced "Screw-gum"), onetime dean of the University of Nevada's Engineering College, was so im-pressed by Jumbo that he had bought an option on a nearby claim and was camping in the neighborhood...
...truth will not believe the statements of such people as the above mentioned minister and doctor. Peter Stuart Ney was a school teacher at Mocksville, N. C. and boarded at the same house with my mother's father, who was also a school teacher in the same neighborhood. ... I have copies of Peter Stuart Ney's own handwriting, and we have coming to us from Paris copies of Marshal Ney's handwriting, which we plan to have compared by the modern handwriting experts in Washington. Several books on this subject have been written by ministers and doctors...
...Francisco, Hyman Gorwitz, father of eight, irked when neighborhood moppets overran his backyard, buried heavy steel wolftraps there, baited them with counterfeit dimes. Before Trapper Gorwitz could catch anything, adult neighbors scaled his fence, dug up two of his traps, had him jailed for would-be assault on their children. "I'm the easiest fellow there can be if I'm treated right," insisted Hyman Gorwitz...