Word: purlieus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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STREET SCENE-poetry and passion in Manhattan's purlieus...
...Whalen was much less successful in meeting the challenge of crime to which he owes his office. The murderer of Gambler Rothstein remained at large; for every speakeasy closed, many remained prosperously open; the city's purlieus were by no means disinfected. Mr. Whalen made threats against 996 "nests of crime" listed in a recent police report. At the Chelsea Methodist Church he declared his opinion that "known criminals have no Constitutional rights." He also blurted out that any who questioned his methods "are not good citizens...
...Virgin's, Magdalen, Merton, and the Cathedral are lost in the lower reaches of this fog-bank. The streets are shining with wet; the Old Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College and University buildings look like the cubic masses of a modern stage-setting. The purlieus of St. Aldate's are wrapped in gloom. Only the most intrepid explorer would venture into labyrinthine Hell Passage, or attempt to thread the intricacies of Logic Lane. It is the open season for colds and chills, and everyone must take to the fields for games if he wishes to withstand...
...mills, racketeers, grafters were not all. Bordellos, roulette wheels & lottery dens also figured in the testimony. From time to time Philadelphians were treated to the graphic evidence of a gang murder, racketeer ructions in the purlieus of the city. Never before had Pennsylvanians read of such corruption in city government. It was enough to give any voter pause. Varedom was in jeopardy...
...soft-sheed but sternsouled guardians who prowl the purlieus of the examination rooms, their cost for the past two semesters of 1926-27 amounted to $3.053.50. The monitors' price, if may be seen, approaches very nearly three times the stationery expense. Some rapid calculation demonstrates the entire outlay as $5.316.35 per College annum...