Word: tenementation
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Gold's parents came from Rumania to a Manhattan East Side tenement in Chrystie Street. They were orthodox Jews, decent, kindly people, believed in dybbuks (evil spirits). Manhattan tenement life shocked their kindliness and decency, did not shake their faith in evil spirits. Chrystie Street was in the red-light district, under the protection of Tammany Hall. Mike Gold never forgot his fifth birthday, for that night two gunmen shot it out in the back yard...
...returned to inspect the application of her methods to New York tenement children in the John Jay Dwelling. This time she crossed the continent, gave two International training courses at the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco. Once more, in 1916, she crossed the Atlantic. Her lecture course that year was sponsored by the Child Education Foundation of New York...
...slum district of East Cambridge. His church is, in effect, a settlement house to which he brings all races and religious. He wrote a personal letter to President Lowell expressing his astonishment that Harvard, with its traditions, should have treated Mrs. Emma Trafton (who lives in a dark, dreary tenement directly in the rear of Mr. Duvall's church) as it did. On December 30, 1929, President Lowell replied as follows...
STREET SCENE?Dramatic diagnosis of tenement house fevers...
STREET SCENE?Microcosmic disturbances in a tenement house...