Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, as the great city boiled and throbbed around them, as their house became part of Harlem and Negroes seeped into their neighborhood, they lived in greater & greater seclusion. They boarded up the windows of their old brownstone. Despite their wealth-estimated at more than $100,000-they stopped paying their bills. Their water, electricity and gas were shut off. For a while Langley tried to "make my own electricity" with an automobile generator. Then they were content to cook and heat their big house with a small kerosene stove, and fetch demijohns of water four blocks from Mount Morris...
...Cambridge, Mass. His father was a bookbinder. His mother died when he was three, and he and his brother Bobby went to live with her sister,"Aunt Lizzie" Herlihy, in Allston, Mass. He was a scrawny kid, all arms, legs and adenoids. The tough little Micks in his new neighborhood took one look at his pinched, birdlike face, nicknamed him "Twit," and let him play alone. To pass time - and attract attention - Johnny started juggling whatever came to hand. "That," says Fred, "was my first and biggest mistake." At six, he had performed his way into St. Anthony...
...Neighborhood: About a man who left his good but commonplace wife and wound up with a guilty conscience...
...into the Communist Party at 73, a year before he died. (This present collection is edited by Novelist Howard Fast, one of the editors of the Communist New Masses.) In his writing Dreiser's bewilderment led him into confused and confusing passages like the following (from The Old Neighborhood...
...Neighborhood bars were getting the most benefit from their video sets. Even men who don't frequent saloons would come in to see a hockey game. And free loaders were no problem; most people bought at least a few beers while they watched...