Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muddled rush of feeling seized him: pity for himself as a rejected husband, envy of the stranger's virile appearance, guilt that he had failed to step up and challenge the fellow. Bishop felt even more confused when the stranger bounced over to introduce himself as the new neighbor, Charles Diver. The man invited them to dinner, and Madge, who had come downstairs, cheerfully said...
Bargain. In Coney Island, N.Y., Magistrate Charles E. Ramsgate persuaded a mother to keep her children out of a neighbor's garden, on condition that the neighbor stop setting out poison ivy plants...
...that good?" whispered a little, white-haired French woman. "Don't know a thing about it," her neighbor apologized. Lillian sevened out, the other beauties rolled, the management set up the drinks...
...sweet smiles and cold determination, the sisters move in on and eventually take possession of the converted-stable studio of a dithery painter (Elsa Lan-chester). They also wheedle the deed to a valuable piece of real estate from a notorious gangster (Thomas Gomez), and almost drive a songwriting neighbor (Hugh Marlowe) out of his mind before he capitulates. In their childlike faith, they brush aside every staggering obstacle in their path. When things look really tough, they say a prayer to St. Jude, patron of the impossible...
Q.E.D. In North Little Rock, Ark., Beatrice Satterfield's husband explained to police how she happened to back his car through the side of a neighbor's house: "She wanted to prove to me that she could drive...