Word: tenementation
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...this he catches all the bustle of the busy port with its many types of boats, the dinginess of the smoky atmosphere through which the sun burns with a yellow glow, and the towering height of the skyscrapers. In a "Winter Scene" he portrays the dreariness of a tenement district when everything is covered with grey sooty snow. The most forceful picture of all is a war scene showing three men in the foreground, the first of whom is lieing on the ground with a huge bloody wound, while the second is about to drive a bayonet through the back...
Most of the 4,000 doctors who do business on Manhattan Island, where they have the richest and poorest people in the world for patients, last week refused to entertain a suggestion to charge only $1 for office calls, $2 for tenement calls. Their average charge now is $5 for office, $10 for apartment calls. As for patients who cannot afford $5 and $10 fees, the Manhattan doctors whom Dr. Daniel S. Dougherty, secretary of the New York County Medical Society, sounded out, indicated that they would put them on their private charity lists or send them to public charity...
...tenement in which Patrick Joseph Hayes's humble birth occurred was in Manhattan's City Hall Place, now called Cardinal Place. The year was 1867. Orphaned early, the Cardinal remembers of his Irish immigrant mother only that she once carried him through a maze of horse cabs across Broadway. Because his Aunt Ellen thought, "He got the callin'," Pat Hayes was sent to a school, later a college, run by the Christian Brothers. There he made friends with a younger, livelier lad named George Mundelein. Indifferent at games, Hayes was a brilliant student whose businesslike manner got him the highest...
Porgy and Bess, so named to prevent prospective customers from regarding it as a revival of the play, begins with droning "Do-doo-da's" interspersed with "wawa, wa-wa." Catfish Row will be on view, with its dilapidated tenement fronts, its old street lamps, its "Gawd-fearin women" and its "Gawd-damnin' men.'' As in the play, the crippled beggar Porgy drives his ribby goat, hunched in a cart made of packing box labeled "Wild Rose Soap, Pure & Fragrant." The whoring Bess again finds shelter and love with Porgy after the bullying Crown commits his drunken murder...
Fortune On Manhattan's East Side, a rumor of an uncle who had died six years ago in South Africa leaving a $17,000,000 fortune burst on the tenement home of Abraham Starr, 58, impecunious Polish-Jewish ironworker, his wife Leah, his seven grown children and brood of grandchildren. The facts were that a Montreal lawyer had seen in the hands of a stranger a Polish newspaper listing the will of one Harry Koslack or Kozack who had bequeathed at least $1,000,000, maybe $6,000,000, to his sister who had married a man named Stareselsky...