Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baird and Engler, who both have terrible tempers, almost came to blows deciding whose plant to use for the ceremonies, whose could fly the E flag thereafter. Major Dinwiddie intervened with a Solomon's solution. Next week their neighborhood movie house will play a new kind of double feature: on that neutral ground the Army will present an E flag apiece to Wayne Baird and Anthony Engler...
...Question (asked at Manhattan's OPA office): "May I drive my car to shop around secondhand dealers so I may sell it?" Answer: "No." Question: "May an Italian in a Jewish neighborhood drive to an Italian store a mile away once a week to buy Italian food...
...came more than 2,000,000 Italians, part of history's greatest population movement.* Rootless and adrift in the New World, they formed "foreign language" enclaves such as the one in Rochester, N.Y., where dark, pun-loving Author Mangione grew up. "Most of my relatives lived in one neighborhood [nicknamed Mount Allegro], not more than five or six blocks from each other. That was about as far apart as they could live without feeling that America was a desolate and lonely place...
...forewarning that "George Washington Slept Here" will either send you in the aisles or up them, for this Jack Benny-Ann Sheridan slapstick does not start its run at the Met until tomorrow. It made the rounds on Broadway during the Christmas vacation and has since played the neighborhood circuit around New York...
Best dispatch was an interview with a Red general, who told of Russian tricks in Stalingrad. Sample: "A man should not be afraid to take a position in the immediate neighborhood of the enemy. . . . Artillery and aviation hit their own troops if the distance between trenches is 20 to 40 meters. As soon as German planes appear over Stalingrad our artillery opens fire and the Germans send up rockets signaling: 'Don't hit our own troops.' We give exactly the same signal, and then the devil himself couldn't tell where or how to bomb...