Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night after the bombing of the Red bank, Parisians in the neighborhood were startled from their beds by another explosion which battered the first floor of Worms and Co., a hundred-year-old banking house, and blew out display windows across the street at the Printemps department store. "Someone has made a mistake," fretted a director of the Worms bank. "We have no political affiliations and certainly none with the Communist Party." Reinforced police patrols prowled Paris' financial district, watching for further bomb-throwers...
...Yale Club of Boston, when it decided in 1927 to mark the birthplace of its founder, evidently felt slightly embarrassed about the change that has come over the old neighborhood. A plaque was erected--just outside of Scollay Square--with the notation that Eli was actually born a few yards away...
...managed to track the raven down until recently a police commissioner in the neighborhood began to get letters ("Madame So-and-So caused two persons to disappear in 1943 and buried their bodies in her garden"). The commissioner got on the trail, arrested Madame Célestine Camille Martin, a 57-year-old pianist and World War I widow. Unable to make a living as a pianist, she had tried as best she could to eke out her meager 7,000 franc ($20) monthly pension. Last week a Paris court sentenced her to eight months in prison. The prospect...
...only sororities and fraternities, but of the entire American university system. To the college student, the rotten insinuations and ideals presented by this movie are simply a joke, but strangely enough, the American public is always inclined to believe the things that they see on the screen at the neighborhood theatre...
Actually, young Cocozza lived in a fairly pleasant working-class neighborhood, where his parents, Antonio and Maria Cocozza, had a six-room house and brought up their only child with pampering indulgence. The elder Cocozza, a decorated World War I combat veteran on a total disability pension, is a semi-invalid; his wife worked as a seamstress in the Army quartermaster depot. Freddy, as everyone called their son, was a spoiled, reckless kid: one of his teachers still remembers him with a shudder as "one of the biggest bums that ever came into the public-school system...