Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Svelte, 22-year-old Beatrice Barrett, Patty Berg's neighbor in Minneapolis, who set a new record for the Women's National when she posted 74 in the opening-day qualifying round, only two strokes above men's par for the long Wee Burn course...
...Dewey had the city post a $25,000 cash reward for Lepke, dead or alive, in addition to $5,000 offered by the Federal Government. Pat came announcement of a nationwide crime drive, "the greatest ever" by the F. B. I., through the office of Tom Dewey's neighbor and contemporary, U. S. District Attorney John T. Cahill, friend and protege of Franklin Roosevelt's Janizary, Tommy ("Uncorkable") Corcoran...
...effect of Depression II was to produce a hatful of jobhunter radio programs. On the busy Don Lee Network in the Far West, Help Thy Neighbor in two and a half years has helped place 13,000 persons. Chicago's I Need a Job, over WGN and later WCFL, has placed some 2,400 in less than a year. Last week Detroit's I Want a Job, conducted by the Michigan State Employment Service over WWJ, turned its first birthday. It had placed a modest 225 of 346 applicants who appeared on the program. More interesting than...
...comparative safety of London with its 700 inhabitants moved Survivor Hopkins to chronicle his sad saga by the light of a piece of string pushed through a strip of bacon. At night he wrote, by day he hunted for food in the barren city. His sole neighbor, an old lady, lived in the National Gallery. "She heard that it was empty, and wanted to gratify her love of art and lust for possession during the last days that remain to her." She lived on pigeons that fell dead from the Nelson Column, cooking them over a fire of Dutch masterpieces...
Lula Horgos was a gawky, lonely twelve-year-old who lived in a seedy brownstone front on Manhattan's West Side. Her father, a spiritualist, called her Dik-Dik (after the royal Abyssinian antelope). Neighbor kids called her Spooky Sloppy Lula. One day Dik-Dik saw a solemn, horse-faced young man coming down the street-the answer to a maiden's seance. Lula charged, threw her arms around his waist. "I'm Dik-Dik," she said. The stranger, who hailed from South Brooklyn, had a "heart as clean as a baby's," was the fourth...