Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that was past. In New Canaan, Imogene was more interested in the present. She was frequently photographed in scanty swimming suits. She turned her dark, innocent eyes on next-door neighbor Charlie Milton, susceptible treasurer of a bolt company, father of three. New Canaan tongues began to clack...
From strong-willed Queen Mary, the Belgian Queen received right royal counsel: Leopold must "be a King." Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte asked King Leopold to pay her a visit. Luxembourg is Belgium's southeastern neighbor. From St. Wolfgang, King Leopold promptly announced that there was "no question of abdicating," that he was proceeding with the formation of a new government...
Belgium's northern neighbor was also royally expectant last week. If reports from The Netherlands were true, Queen Wilhelmina, 64, might soon abdicate in favor of her son-in-law, Prince Consort Bernhard. At the same time she would raise his status from Prince Consort to King. Behind the rumored move were the Queen's age, the Prince's sudden popularity and the fluid Dutch political situation...
Their nearest neighbor (J. Carrol Naish) is a man so confused and embittered by his own poverty and ambition that he does his best to frustrate their attempt to better themselves. They get a derelict house into shape, desperately watch one of their children wither under pellagra, raise a crop they can be proud of, get drunk at a wedding in town, reassemble the pitiful remnants of their year's work after a cloudburst, and come into the fall of the year in a resolute, proud, sad knowledge of their lives which is granted to few except farmers...
...guinea to a farthing," cried one knowing neighbor, "she has been at Mother Wells...