Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Cagney was born over a saloon owned and run by his father in a Manhattan slum. By the time he reached high school he had started that series of heterogeneous occupations which occur painfully at the outset of many a cinematic career. He was a copy boy for the New York Sun; a department store bundle-wrapper; a librarian; a neophyte painter. He left Columbia University to be a chorus boy. From this traditionally effeminate occupation, he presently was graduated to vaudeville, musical comedy (Grand Street Follies)., legitimate plays (Women Go on Forever and Outside Looking In for which...
Oldster George Lansbury, when Commissioner of Works, built so many bright orange public bath houses that his London slum constituency returned him to Parliament last week despite the Conservative landslide...
Died, Lieut. -Colonel Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel, 65, famed British turfman, slum-born, director of Barnato Bros. & Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co., mighty syndicates which control the world's diamond output and fix diamond prices; after a long illness; at Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket, England...
...termed, when called by their flask titles, and others, Rig; as, the Letter-racket; the Order-racket, the Kid rig, the Cat and Kitten rig; etc., but all these terms depend on the fancy of the speaker. In fact, any game may be termed a rig, racket, suit, slum, etc. by prefixing thereto the particular branch of depredation or fraud in question...
...such a Vice Governor as Dr. Butte. Impressed, Politicos Quezon and Osmena in Manila announced that they were quite satisfied. President Hoover felt that he might well congratulate himself. ¶ "We need to be more humble," President Hoover was told at Quaker meeting by Miss Muriel Lester, London slum worker. ¶ With his special message on the World Court written and ready to send to the Senate, President Hoover was informed that at least 20 Senators would oppose ratification of the Root Formula so strenuously as to block any chance of action at this session. But the President was comforted...