Word: tenementation
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Stage Manager P. J. Carolan, in playing Fluther Good, presents an ordinary, ignorant, proud Dublin tenement-dweller with splendid vividness. M. J. Dolan is Uncle Peter Flynn, and amiable old man made the pathetic butt of a Socialist's humor. That socialist, played by Denis O'Dea, is reduced to pillaging and playing cards, nervously squatting on the floor of an attic, because he will not participate in a futile rebellion. Mareen Delany and May Craig are splendid as a pair of garrulous, short-tempered kind-hearted fishwives, the latter singing "Rule Brittania" throughout the uprising. All these people...
...lustrous Margo at a cocktail party arranged by her pressagent, Otto Hulett. While Margo tells them about her idyllic childhood among the jasmine bowers of the South, the curtains close. The orchestra plays Swanee River. The curtains then open on the squalid back yard of a New York tenement, showing the audience what Margo's childhood was really like. It was terrible. Her mother took in washing, and her younger brother (Charles Powers) was a budding thief...
...conclusion of "The Village Maiden and the Three Red Boys" where the offended father's attempt to profit in a common-sense way from his daughter's misfortune is rudely rejected by Soviet justice. "Leningrad's Lucky House" shows an all-wise government taking control of a poor tenement's winning in a state lottery and administering it to everyone's disappointment and everyone's ultimate benefit. Mr. Duranty has loss success when he tackles the subject of the comparative success of Christianity and Communism as a working philosophy in "The Spirit Within." He merely states the proposition that they...
...years-to-life for taking two girls, 8 and 10, to a cinema and carnally molesting them. Indicted in Brooklyn was another ex-convict, 49, and twice convicted of statutory offences against children. He had strangled and assaulted an 8-year-old girl in the basement of her tenement home. In Chicago, a 17-year-old high-school junior was convicted of assaulting a girl of 9 in the basement of an apartment building. The girl recovered from 37 stabs from a rusty ice pick, a file and a pair of shears, was the State's principal witness...
...Housing Bill, 1937 edition, was modeled closely after a popular British slum-clearing act. It provided for $700,000,000 to be loaned by the Federal Government to a U. S. Housing Authority for pulling down noxious tenement houses and erecting low-rental dwellings in their stead. The Authority would then reimburse the Treasury by selling their own 60-year bonds (guaranteed by the U. S.) to the public. If income from the necessarily low rents fell short of paying off bonds & interest, the Government would chip in up to $20,000,000 a year-an outright subsidy...