Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian mill hands, the father an alcoholic, the mother notoriously immoral. Fleur's first affair, when 11, was with the father of her mother's bastard. The family lived in squalid poverty, were chased from hovel to hovel, sometimes for not paying rent, sometimes for debauching the neighborhood. Fleur's adolescent peccadillos took place in cellars. Later she became a common street walker...
...parents, then her husband led her through the shacks of small Massachusetts communities. Two of her children, and probably the third, are illegitimate. With disgust Professor Glueck and his wife report: "The alleged father of Minnie's third child had made a bet with some of the neighborhood bums that he could have intercourse with Minnie under a street light. He won his bet, the act taking place behind a bowling alley while the gang watched from outside the window...
...TIME, June 11 et seq.). Though it was raining pitchforks Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe would brook no delay. Fortnight ago all five had attacks of intestinal toxemia. Last week all had slight colds, caught apparently from their five older brothers and sisters. There was whooping cough, too, in the neighborhood. And their sturdy mother, who has had nothing to do with their nursing or care, seemed again pregnant...
...Prof. Theodore G. Soares, The Neighborhood Church, Pasadena, Calif...
...addition to Dean Sperry, the members of the Board of Preachers for the present year are: Reverend Charles Reynolds Brown, Dean Emeritus of the Yale Divinity School; Reverend Professor Theodore Gerald Soares of The Neighborhood Church, Pasadena, Griffin of the First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia; Reverend John Robert Paterson Sclater of Old St. Andrew's Church, Toronto; and Reverend Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Trinity Church, Boston...