Word: tenementation
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...department that the New York Post (see above), like most newspapers, had neglected to sensationalize was its' real-estate section. Last week the Post contributed a prize example of the kind of prose that is as overcrowded and badly constructed as a slum tenement...
...three-ring performance. In a story conference where he plays all the roles of scenes in the making, the bristle mustache suddenly twitches, and the face looks heavenward in horror. The jaw sags until the huge cigar droops from his lower lip like a wet sheet hanging from a tenement window. He leans back across the grand piano in his office. His voice becomes shrill and frightened. This is Zanuck impersonating a virgin in distress...
...fight was noisy as a tenement row, and sometimes as unseemly. But when the shouting subsided in Pennsylvania last week, the liberal wing of the Republican Party, led by Republican Governor James Duff, was on top. It had trounced old (87) Joe Grundy, the foxy political grandpa who for almost 30 years had run the state's Republican Party on the principle that what was good for big business was good for the people...
Novelist Baron's soldiers belonged to a company of battle-worn British infantrymen who had fought their way across the Sicilian plain in the summer of 1943 and reached the seaport town of Catania, in the shadow of Mt. Etna. There they commandeered a tenement building and settled down to rest...
...University has already given the House permission to use its property at 7 Cowperthwaite Street, directly behind Dunster, for the project. The recent razing of a tenement house on the property makes this space available...