Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them except by proper leadership. Delinquency is on the upgrade and we must stop it. To do this we need your help." This is an excerpt from the text of a letter received at Phillips Brooks House yesterday. It was signed by Miss Catherine Orr, headworker at the Trinity Neighborhood House...
...Neighborhood associations sweep the city streets, and school authorities, business firms, even Government ministries, do their own house cleaning. Thousands of small Tokyo shops have been closed; remaining stores have "rather modest" displays of goods...
...shriek that sent some groundlings dashing for shelter, sure that a heavy bomb was screaming down near by. As it whisked overhead the sound changed to something like "a giant whistling teakettle on the boil." It disappeared over the far horizon before you could say "knife." After a while, neighborhood people got used to it, even gave it a nickname: "The Squirt...
Price lives with his wife, three sons and a notable collection of personally refinished antiques, in an old Dutch house in Tenafly, NJ. The improbable pieces of furniture which clutter up some of his cartoons are often clearly visible in the neighborhood of Tenafly. Price thinks that Who's In Charge Here may not be as strong a book as his first and favorite, Good Humor Man. But, on the basis of the evidence, few of Price's admirers will be disappointed...
...bookwormish, overfond of baker's buns. His father, a St. Louis lawyer, christened him Edward H. O'Hare. But the neighborhood dubbed him "Butch." Hard-muscled, no longer fat, he was still "Butch" when he took his diploma at Annapolis, then went on to Pensacola to train as a U.S. Navy flyer...