Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donald is flanked on his tour of the Good-Neighborhood by debonair...
...chance were any of you in the neighborhood of the tunnel exit yesterday? Or the bridge ramp this side? A disgusting spectacle. Here were hundreds of American cars, lined up bumper to bumper, coming to Windsor for just one thing. Gas. The Government allows each 'tourist' twelve gallons. All he has to say is that he's going to Tilbury or Stoney Point or Leamington or North Bay. ... He gets the little book...
...walks with his landlady, who clung snugly to his arm. Otherwise he seemed to have no friends. Storekeepers found him quick-tempered, particularly when they had no cigarets for him. But even the most suspicious of his neighbors did not connect Mrs. Mayer's lodger with many unexplained neighborhood happenings. Sometimes, for hours, strangers sat in parked cars with motors running, only to drive away, return again. At night other strangers prowled the block...
Except for Saturday matinees in the neighborhood cinema circuit, the movie serial that reached its zenith of popularity with "The Perils of Pauline" has given way to series, unconnected in plot, but cast in the same mold: The Great Gildersleeve, Andy Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Crime Doctor, Doctor Gillespie, Fibber McGeo and Molly. People find these entertaining, just as they like familiar Tchaikowsky and spurn Shostakovich, but no further contribution to a stagnating film-art can come from such mechanically-whipped froth. To use the vernacular, when you've seen one, you've seen...
...Memories. In his bare little office in Tacloban, small, silent President Sergio Osmeña toiled at the multiple tasks of the new Government. He moved with tolerance and caution. After Corregidor's surrender, thousands of Filipinos had accepted Japanese "Kalibapi cards" and joined Japanese "neighborhood associations," simply to go on living and eating. But the Filipinos wanted no head-shavings or witch hunts. By last week 140 suspected collaborators were imprisoned. But Sergio Osmeña wanted only major offenders; 60 small fry suspects had already been paroled...