Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race, which will consume in the neighborhood of nine minutes-give or take a few seconds-will start from a position just upstream from the West Boston (or Subway) Bridge and procede thence in a generally southwesterly direction for a mile and three quarters, until a point opposite the Tech Boathouse is reached...
...Beat You." Says Branch Rickey: "Leo can't be found mollycoddling a situation. He has marvelous aptitude-whether shooting pool, playing golf or squash or gin rummy-but no classical education. His marks in deportment may not have been too good. He came out of a pretty tough neighborhood in Springfield, Mass. with great energy which boiled down to three words: 'I'll beat you, I'll beat...
...Durochers' home in West Springfield, Mass, was just a few blocks from the roundhouse where Leo's railroading father worked. It was a self-respecting if tough neighborhood. Of French descent, Leo went to St. Louis Roman Catholic Church. But two years as an altar boy did not soften him noticeably. At 17, Leo was the best pool shot in town (though his habit of talking to his opponent while the latter was lining up a shot was not considered ethical), and the brassiest guy on the Wico Electric Co. baseball club...
There was no further word on golf, although Samborski heard suggestions on possible courses in the neighborhood and will make further investigations...
...local setting that Boston might do with a corps of psycho analysts. Would that it would that simple. Like the city he lived in, the original George Apley was a creature of deep conflicts and inner restlessness. Ronald Colman does no better than an imitation of any neighborhood's damn fool...