Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aver (TIME, Oct. 7) that Wisbech rhymes with fizz peach. Not so. I've been stationed in the neighborhood [Cambridgeshire, England] for several, months, and can authoritatively state that it is pronounced "whiz bitch." What's the matter, do you think bitch is a nasty word...
...Republicans were surging back to political power. Ed Martin traipsed triumphantly in & around Philadelphia. He went out to fashionable Wyncote (see cut). He marched out to speak in a neighborhood of dirty, dingy brick houses. This was the rebellious northeast section which three times had helped to throw Philadelphia into the camp of Roosevelt. Here were the hosiery mills, the machine shops and shipyards. Franklin Roosevelt had been their idol. But Roosevelt was dead...
...acres enough. ¶Since the U.N. will remain in the New York area for at least four or five years, whatever permanent site is finally chosen, Russia's Andrei Gromyko leased a five-story apartment building, ancient but refurbished, on West 88th Street, in a rather dowdy neighborhood. A woman, who probably remembered a cloak-&-dagger film called The House on 92nd Street (four blocks north), expressed audible worry lest the Russians fabricate atomic bombs in the basement. ¶ The Argentine envoys, who arrived early and ensconced themselves at the Waldorf-Astoria, excited the envy of other Latin American...
Replying to a stream of complaints registered by date-taking undergraduates who have found their seat assignments for this Saturday to be in the neighborhood of the end zone, both Lunden and William J. Bingham '16, director of the H.A.A. offered assurances that under the present system of permanent season allocations it was inevitable that certain positions should be unfavorable...
...question as to exactly what the purpose of a "repertory theatre" is. Some have claimed it to be of an experimental nature, to assemble a collection of rare plays and good actors and maintain a fountain from which will pour a variety of dramatic experiences not available at your neighborhood theatre. Others explain the aim of a repertory company as the staging of classic vehicles, well-known, well-read, but seldom seen--such as this company has done in "Henry VIII" and will do with "John Gabriel Borkman." The actual merit of the production is secondary to the fact that...