Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Society for Contemporary Art was founded, there were no regular exhibitions of Modern Art held in the neighborhood. Started by a group of students, it was a lively organization as long as they were in College, but undergraduate interest in it has grown less and less every year until today few but the dowagers of Brattle Street wander upstairs to look at its exhibitions. Who directs it, and why, remains to most a profound mystery, and it would no doubt have passed out of the control of undergraduates long since had not the trustees resisted such a change...
Enterprising Manhattan reporters managed to find local "Nazi" headquarters in the beery Yorkville neighborhood. Patient knocking at last aroused six preoccupied Teutons, some curiously clad in pajamas, all with well-thumbed newspapers in hand. "Maybe we send a cable," said the spokesman. "Maybe we celebrate tonight." Pointing to the new Chancellor's photograph he added pridefully: "Just like Mussolini...
Ancient & honorable is the Society of the Genesee, composed of successful men & women who were born in or near New York's Genesee Valley, or achieved success in the neighborhood.* Once a year they meet & eat in Manhattan to salute a paragon. Meeting & eating last week they saluted President Edward Bausch of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. The event gave occasion for children with eyeglasses, students with microscopes, astronomers with telescopes, seafarers with binoculars, photographers with cameras, soldiers with range finders to learn what manner of man made their tools...
Displaying a steady, sure power which it has hitherto failed to evince, the Varsity squash A team swept through the Quincy Neighborhood A team, 4 to 1 last Saturday, raising their league standing from fifth to third place, and threatening the Union Boat Club...
...March 1931 Mr. Beale took over the People's Church in St. Paul, whose pastor for many years had been Howard Y. Williams, now secretary of Professor John Dewey's League for Independent Political Action. People's was down-at-heel, in a shabby neighborhood. Preacher Beale stepped up its program, managed this year to increase its budget...