Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian summer and invasion time came to Moscow together. Flower girls hawked lilacs and forget-me-nots. Soda-water wagons rolled through the streets with neighborhood kids in tow. Workers hurried home at day's end to spade their victory gardens. The Moscow River brightened with canoes and racing shells. There were concerts and operettas in the parks. The trees along the Kremlin's wall turned a lovely green. Fresh coats of paint shone on the trams and busses...
...work consists merely of folding gauze into pads of various sizes. Anyone can learn it in a morning. The two neighborhood workrooms are located at 23 Church Street and 22 Larch Road...
...cardboard figure of his friend, Will Rogers, which had once stood in front of a theatre. The neighbors strolled out past the hickory tree where James Whitcomb Riley used to sit. They sat on folding chairs on the grass to hear funeral speeches. Many had been there before as neighborhood kids, invited to Mr. Ade's 430-acre place for picnics. It was 90 in the sun now. Drawled one old neighbor: "George always did have nice weather for his parties." Said another: "He wouldn't want us to be sad. He'd want us to have...
...This and Sodas Too. What is an essential occupation? Its definition will be left largely to local boards, who can make their decisions on the basis of neighborhood needs. For their guidance, Selective Service called essential...
...moment he is pleasantly taken up with an appealing village "daftie" (Playwright Curtis) - only children and dafties, of course, can communicate with ghosts. From his angel wife Charlie learns that he can still crash the pearly gates if he reforms a living sinner. He pitches on the neighborhood's lustiest devotee of Scotch, women and dice, and their efforts to outsmart each other provide the brightest moments in the play. In the course of it all Charlie outsmarts himself; no Heavenly fling, he discovers, can equal a good old Highland fling...