Word: tenements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Association) is George Sweeney of the Hotel Commodore, who holds: Apartment hotels are alienating the appetites of potential diners at regular hotels by providing kitchenette facilities. His Honor should stop such nefarious seductions by invoking state laws which require more light, ventilation, sanitary devices and fire precautions in tenement houses (i. e. apartments where cooking facilities are provided) than in hotels (where cooking in the rooms is illegal...
Cooking in serving pantries of apartment hotels in New York has been held illegal by the Court of Special Sessions there, under fire hazard covered by a Tenement House law. Investments of $350,000,000 in such hotels are jeopardized. The Apartment Hotel Owners' Association will appeal the case...
...less capable a critic of English literature than J. C. Squire recently wrote that the salvat on of American letters would consist in a return to character and an abandonment of the continuous satirical description of American mudnats and tenement houses. Perhaps American life might be better if just that were done. Instead of this continued Menchenistic harping upon the single string of defects of m lieu there might be the stronger tone of accomplished character development...
Number 7-Jewel-hunt in a deserted tenement...
Number 7. Another English thriller has visited tired Broadway. Number 7 is the address of a forsaken tenement building which, in the course of a chilling melodrama, houses Scotland Yard detectives, criminals, innocents, relief comedians, all bent upon recapturing the Duchess's stolen jewels. Weird entrances and exits are effected through skylights, windows, doors. Eden Gray, as heroine, lends a touch of beauty. The play, though strictly according to formula, is fairly exciting...