Word: tenementation
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...psychiatric terminology, the Leonski case was that of catathymic crisis resulting from the same mother fixation which plagued Shakespeare's Hamlet, which for centuries has driven certain types of thwarted men to kill the thing they love the most. Leonski, according to Dr. Wertham, was a lonely, heartsick tenement boy suddenly deprived of all sense of comfort and personal love. Under these circumstances the inhibitions piled up from the time he was a little boy, when his sister said, "He was so good he used to scare me," drove him to one of the rarest and least understood forms...
That he found within a tunnel near the tenement of Jones...
...delivered of babies during his 40-odd years of practice. In 1895, the poor young physician, son of Jewish immigrant parents, scraped together $500, collected a stove, table, chairs and linen, bought two secondhand beds, and started Chicago's first free maternity dispensary in a $12-a-month tenement flat...
...curate in grimy industrial Leeds, young Cosmo Lang slept in a condemned tenement on a board bed only two feet wide, ministered to people even poorer than himself. But promotion came to the shrewd young man: as an Oxford don, vicar of Portsea and, in 1901, Bishop of London's East End diocese of Stepney. In 1908 the Archbishop of York died, and at 44 Lang was appointed Europe's youngest archbishop...
Died. John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, 67, the House of Commons' "most ejected member" (1918-40); of heart disease; in Leigh-On-Sea, England. Burly Laborite from London's tenement-jammed West Ham, he heckled contemporaries as "damned liars," "assassins." referred to Commons as "the national gas works." Ejection was Commons' method of silencing...