Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agencies, will be this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in PBH, Brooks said. "The meeting will acquaint volunteers with the methods used in boy's work," he added. Speakers include John Kingman, director of Lincoln House, South Boston, Mark Mazel of South End House, Paul Sweeney of Cambridge Neighborhood House, and William Flaherty of the Community Recreation Service...
...nation whose citizens trade and travel-that is to say, no nation which lives in neighborhood with other nations -need consider whether or not it will be a member of the community of nations. It cannot help itself. It may be a good member or a bad member, but it is a member by reason of the simple fact of neighborhood life and intercourse. The Bolshevik rulers of Russia are illustrating this. They have been trying to repudiate all the obligations resulting from their country's membership in the community of nations, and one result is that intercourse...
Zack: "I wouldn't trust you with my home address-you and your goons would destroy my neighborhood...
...Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner walks a dangerous rope: it often picks its topics out of the headlines, and sometimes finds its humor in the neighborhood of the outhouse. Last week, on both counts, it disappeared for a week from the columns of the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press. Editor Edward Towner Leech had taken umbrage at a broad burlesque of the U.S. Senate...
Jackie lives a long way from Harlem's high life, in a five-room, second-floor flat on Brooklyn's McDonough Street, in a Negro neighborhood. His name is not on the door, and he knows few of his neighbors. How he feels about them shows through the guarded brevity of his speech, which sometimes carries a suggestion of dryness. Says he: "I don't want to bother with too many people who want to be my relatives...