Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warm, prolix emotion which Fannie Hurst put into her story about a young Jewish doctor on Manhattan's East Side is strongly translated in this picture. Felix (Ricardo Cortez), humbly set up with a backroom for an office, finds few paying patients. He has long hard hours at a neighborhood clinic. It is his idea of happiness, however, to know that he is relieving a little the suffering he has seen everywhere about him since childhood. His fame but not his wealth grows until, realizing a debt to his family, he becomes a fashionable doctor with offices on Park Avenue...
...many efforts to establish and maintain a Negro daily none has succeeded. Discerning Negro editors recognize several reasons, 1) In large cities big department stores do not want Negro trade, would not advertise in a Negro daily. 2) White dailies widely cover the Negro field. 3) Most neighborhood stores are slow to advertise anywhere, would choose a Negro paper last. In the face of such obstacles the Atlanta World last fortnight stepped up its publication from thrice-weekly to daily, proudly declared itself the only Negro daily in the world, "the supreme achievement of Negro journalism...
...long fame of the Eagle, the Times is unknown outside of Brooklyn. Yet the circulations of both papers are around 100,000. It was not always so. When the late Carson C. Peck, vice president of F. W. Woolworth Co., bought it in 1912, the Times was the small neighborhood organ of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. (An early editor was William Cullen Bryant.) Mr. Peck acquired it because he was approaching the Woolworth retirement age of 60 and wanted something to do. At the same time the Eagle was practically the daily Bible of Brooklyn's quiet, aristocratic, somewhat...
There will be four services in all, with a different preacher at each service, representing three of the neighborhood parishs and the University. The services are planned to come while college is still in session before the spring vacation, and will be held on four successive days beginning Monday, March 21, at 12.10 o'clock. In order to accomodate students with classes up to 12 o'clock, the services will be preceded by an organ prelude until 12.10 o'clock, and will end promptly at 12.30 o'clock...
...which causes people to substitute the sound er for the sound oi. It is with one of these etymological freaks, a very pretty one called Madeleine McGonegal (Dorothy Hall), that Child of Manhattan by Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) is concerned. Miss McGonegal comes from a disadvantaged home in a neighborhood which she calls "Greenpernt." She is a dance hall hostess in a "jernt" named Loveland. At Loveland she meets a rich, self-contained young man who has come to see to what uses his property is being put. He takes her home, slips a $1,000 bill in her stocking...