Word: tenementation
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This week, alongside tenement doors and the imposing iron-grill porticoes of mansions, the little figurines glinted in the light of the December moon. For the humble poor as well as the rich, it was Posada time, the season of Mexico's traditional pre-Christmas parties, when visitors go from house to house bearing lighted candles and singing the traditional words that ask shelter for the holy figures. The hosts sing an answer, saying, like the innkeeper of ancient Judea, that all the beds are taken. The ritual over, everyone troops inside for food & drink...
Knots & Stoppers. She decided that normal children can learn more quickly than their teachers realize. But they learn first through their hands, she observed, then with their brains. In 1906, she set up a school in a Rome tenement, gave the kids freedom, to learn by themselves. There were knots to untie, stoppers to put into bottles. Soon the pupils were beginning to copy letters cut out of cardboard. One day a four-year-old boy, seeing the fireplace in the room, wrote "camino." In a few days, the other four-year-olds were learning to write...
...been painted by an unknown, 34-year-old Philadelphian named Henry Kallem, who submitted it without much expectation of winning a prize. Like last year's prizewinning What Atomic War Will Do to You, Kallem's half-abstract canvas bore a socially conscious title: Country Tenement. Explained Kallem: "My idea was to show how I felt seeing this scene one evening in the country-all the people crowded into one building with all that space around. I tried to achieve a somber mood...
...Yorkers knew his history. He was born in a tenement on Manhattan's lower East Side, the son of poor immigrants from Italy. But his father, a musician named Achille LaGuardia, joined the U.S. Army and became bandmaster of the 11th Infantry Regiment; Fiorello's boyhood was spent in Arizona Army posts. It was a good boyhood. He learned music (all his life he worshiped opera, and as mayor he took delight in leading bands and orchestras). He also rode half-wild range horses and learned early that brashness could be a substitute for size...
...years, Billy Rose has sprinted breathlessly (sometimes sidestepping, and down dark alleys) from grinding poverty to easeful wealth, from chalk on the sidewalk to a Rembrandt in his parlor, from a cold-water tenement to elegant $100,000 diggings on Manhattan's Beekman Place...