Word: tenementation
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...character of Larry (Bing Crosby), a jailbird minstrel whose most prized possession is a 13th-Century lute, in an elaborate routine, involving a letter from a condemned man to Patsy Smith (Edith Fellowes), orphan of a murdered father. "Pennies from Heaven-the coins tossed down to him from tenement windows-are the currency with which Larry undertakes to support Patsy and her Grandpa (Donald Meek...
...midnight. Early next morning, looking slimmer and paler than she had for some months, Elizabeth Smith took the family dog for a customary walk. Later that Saturday the Smith neighborhood was in an uproar of police car sirens, screeching housewives, giggling boys and girls. In the airshaft of the tenement next door to the Smiths', a newborn baby boy had been found dead, apparently dropped from the roof. Easter Sunday, detectives asked childish Elizabeth Smith if the dead child were hers. "Yes." said...
...went to bed, she went to the bathroom. There, alone and without sound, crouching in a tormented daze, she bore her son. She thought, she swore in court last week, that he was born dead. After a rest the girl gathered her infant in her arms, mounted to the tenement roof. She walked to the neighboring airshaft, planning, she swore, to toss self and child over the edge. She fainted: the child fell alone...
...poverty-stricken Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, he learned U. S. ways painfully, was beaten up by Irish boys, stumbled over the English language, saw one of his friends flee after killing a policeman, learned the reality of hard times when his parents were evicted from their tenement...
Fires of ill-feeling were kindled when Maurice P. Davidson and Tenement Housing Commissioner Langdon W. Post, as spokesmen for New York's utility-hating Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. and Superintendent Ezra Frederick Scattergood of the Los Angeles municipal power plant made speeches declaring that the only hope of getting reasonable utility rates was to start public plants in competition. For this breach of promise, half a dozen U. S. utility men refused to participate in the discussions. Floyd Carlisle of Niagara Hudson Power subsequently took occasion to declare that in spite of its municipal plant, Los Angeles had neither...