Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neighborhood was a little hazy about the Mission's exact creed. Most of the people along the street were Irish or Polish Roman Catholics, and they took no interest in its services. But they often heard the organ wheezing away and saw clergymen piously coming & going-there was Father Raymond Norman, and Father Lyman Appleby, and Archbishop William F. Tyarks, a bony and ancient cleric. They all belonged to something called the American Catholic Orthodox Church. Everybody knew they Were not Roman Catholics-Mrs. Fitzgerald, who lived in a flat over the Mission, reported that they ate baloney last...
Cokes and Ice Cream. The sexton, Tom Ryan, had a good name in the neighborhood. He had a cherubic, middle-aged face-"like a bottle baby," said Mrs. Mary McLoughlin down the street. And if the Mission showed little interest in the souls of bums, Father Norman was a friend to the neighbors. He gave the kids cokes and ice cream, and took them for rides in his big black automobile. At Christmas he invited 60 of them to dinner, gave them firemen's helmets and cowboy hats. If anybody needed coal, money or clothes for their children, jovial...
WHILE THEY WERE BEING BOUND IN A BATTERED PLANT HALF A MILE FROM WHERE THE BATTLE FOR INTRAMUROS STILL RAGED A JAP SNIPER WAS HIDING IN A SCRAP PILE 50 YARDS AWAY. OCCASIONALLY POT-SHOOTING AT PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. GUERRILLAS GUARDING THE PLANT ARE STILL UNABLE TO ROUT HIM OUT. WHEN THE PRINTED PAGES WERE BEING TRUCKED TO THE BINDERY IN A WEAPONS CARRIER, THE JAPS FIRED ON US A FEW MILES OUT OF THE CITY. NO ONE WAS HURT...
...Polish-Italian section of Chicago, did not take to Mr. & Mrs. John Henry Strong, their son and a niece. Scarcely had the Negro family settled in the second-floor apartment of an old, unpainted house when things began to happen to them. Rocks shattered five of their windows; the neighborhood buzzed with threats that the house would be burned down...
Warrior Winston Churchill was primarily interested in destroying Nazi Germany. Joseph Stalin, mindful of his exhausted country, was interested for the moment chiefly in creating his own Good Neighborhood on pretty much his own terms. Franklin Roosevelt represented a nation which did not know what kind of a Europe it wanted; he himself had not blueprinted the future of Europe for his countrymen...