Word: tenementation
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...Bombay the Viceregal telegram was publicly called "insulting" by President Vallabhai Patel of the Gandhite Indian National Congress. Other Gandhites shouted: "This means war!" Squatting in his little tent pitched atop a Bombay tenement house, the Mahatma meditated half the night. Then loyal followers heard the scratch, scratch of his pen as he wrote to the Viceroy...
...reeking restaurants, in crowded tenement rooms she listened to the voices of revolution. Soon she joined in. She made many friends. Johann Most, fiery anarchist editor, became her idol. She had lovers?Alexander Berkman, her lifelong comrade and "Fedya." She began to study labor history and improve her English. She made speeches. It was not long before radicals all over the U. S. knew Emma Goldman; the police knew...
Died. Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 81, most famed of British sportsmen, self-made tea tycoon; in his sleep after a ten-day cold; in London. Born in a Glasgow tenement, he went to the U. S. at 15 seeking his fortune, returned when he had saved $500. He had worked in a grocery shop in New York, saw possibilities in the U. S. way of displaying and selling green groceries. His first shop in Glasgow was a success, with Proprietor Lipton behind the counter in white overalls and an apron. From the beginning he believed in advertising, kept his shop...
...straining after effect. There are no steep camera angles, no fog-shrouded skylines, no philosophical implications. And yet by means of a shifting background of figures, director Borzage has surrounded his isolated principals, absorbed in their own affairs, with the reality of city life. Up and down the tenement stairs pass these people -- a drunk, piloting himself upward with splendid balance, and a street-walker hurrying to receive a caller, while below a gray-faced little woman phones to her sister of the death of their mother. The focus of interest is clearly upon these characters as human beings...
...setting is a high-class tenement house. The story concerns all the people who live in it, but chiefly the Maurrants who give the other tenants cause for talk-derisive, frightened, sympathetic- on the dingy front stoop. Mr. Maurrant is a stage technician; his wife (Estelle Taylor) is having an affair with a bill collector. One day Maurrant comes home before he is expected, sees the shades pulled down in the window of his flat. He goes upstairs and shoots his wife and her lover. Police catch him in a cellar down the street. The Maurrants' daughter (Sylvia Sidney...