Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispute. The feud between these reclusive neighbors several times overflowed into the local courts. The Dana-Dockery indictments were based principally on fingerprints found in "Glenburney." After being held in jail ten days, Dana and Miss Dockery were released and police continued to arrest every suspicious person in the neighborhood...
...Practically all of the beasts & birds were acquired from Benson Animal Farms at Nashua, N. H. Neighbor W. B. McClellan, who resides but 100 ft. from the menagerie, heads the protesting property-owners. He caught one of the mon keys in his backyard recently. A woman visitor to the neighborhood found a chimpanzee occupying her parked automobile. Neighbors said the cockatoos were the noisiest. They could not discern which animals smelled worst...
Clarence Hungerford Mackay denied a report, persistent in his Long Island neighborhood, that he, unable to meet heavy taxes, had deeded his 250-acre Roslyn estate "Harbor Hill" to the Roman Catholic church, which was permitting him to stay on in his house at nominal rent. The estate belongs not to him, is trusteed to his son John...
...meals off gold plates, discussing her favorite subjects of art, astrology, numerology, "synthetic psychology." Mrs. McCormick is not left lonely in her adversity. Mr. Krenn is as constant a companion as ever although until Mrs. McCormick recovers her health they will not be seen as of old in the neighborhood cinema, where they sat always in the back row, or at the theatre, chatting in German. Mrs. McCormick's brother, John D. Jr., recently rushed to Chicago to advise her, the first time he had seen her since she returned to the U. S. in 1921 with Mr. Krenn...
...lives at Vennestad with her husband Iver who is none too pleased to take her bastard into their home. But out of loyalty to his mother Odin keeps the home fires burning cool. His Juviking father, Otte Vetran, returned from America, has settled in the neighborhood. He makes a quiet living at cabinetmaking, preaches, lives a strange philosophy-"Resist not evil!" Towards him Odin, in spite of his love for his mother and Karen-Anna, is irresistibly drawn. After a series of boyish escapades, capped by a miraculous escape from drowning, Odin leaves home to join his father...