Word: personal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooming houses taking in five or more lodgers, not members of the family, are required to be licensed. Such licensing places them within the category of lodging or guest houses which are prohibited by the Public Accomodation Law from refusing rooms to any person because of his religion, color or race except for good cause applicable to all persons...
...become a PBH vo-volunteer is simple: all that is required is a person's signature. To do a competent job is more difficult. Working in an emergency ward or teaching in prison is not a glorious job; the rewards are quiet ones. The most external recognition is a pin signifying 100 hours of work. It is a most deserved accolade
...south through Mattapan and other such unpleasant locales was in itself an event of more than usual moment. It required the beautiful concept of Lester Lanin playing his cotillion-brand music before thousands of uncouth wonks who had never seen the inside of a ballroom, much less L.L. in person. To lure Vag to Brockton, of course, the fact that Jerri Vale and Joni James, along with the "live-five" disk-jockey staff of WBZ, would be sharing the same bandstand with the great man added in no small measure to an already felicitous mental picture of the ultimate...
...Southerner learns on arrival here is that he is not part of a great brotherhood inherently bound together in common aims and ideals. His education begins quickly. Classmates from the North however, are a little slower to catch onto the fact that Southerner means nothing more than a person from the South...
Martin Street has "no parking--tow away zone" signs on the odd-numbered side, but no signs whatsoever on the even side. The normal propensity of an unsuspecting person would be to avoid the odd side at all times and to assume that parking on the unposted side was allowable at all times. But actually, this is true only in February, April, June, August October, and December. In all other months a car must be parked on the even side during the day and until 1 a.m.; at 1 a.m. it must be towed to the odd side...