Word: tenements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smiles.' Last week, William Clark, Negro, though employed by us indirectly (through a contractor), got a chance to be mentioned in the Bulletin. He was working 30 ft. underground on our new Eighth Avenue subway (the excavations for which unfortunately blocked fire engines from a blazing tenement last week) when he sank deeper and deeper into a huge sand bin. Walter Strong saw Mr. Clark's head disappear under the sand. With great presence of mind, Mr. Strong shoved a pipe down to Mr. Clark, who was thus enabled to breathe until dug out an hour...
...Winter did not come to this country to paint tenements. He studied art in Poland and manifested an interesting talent for painting. He left Poland because of poverty and religious oppression. When he arrived in this country he wanted to be a painter. He expressed the idea to some immigrant friends on the East Side, who thought he meant that he wanted to be a house painter. He was referred to a job and when he got there he discovered that it was a job painting a tenement house. Handicapped by lack of funds and little knowledge of English...
...Boul' ("short for boulevard") the good-hearted and light-fingered cabman: "We sinners make the best saints." From the depths of sewer and street in the first act, its hero and heroine rise to Heaven in the second and third, their paradise the dingy seventh floor room of a tenement...
George Gershwin, 27, was born in Brooklyn. At an early age, he contributed to the music of a rickety, rollicking, tenement street, at first with infantile muling, later with a stout, pubescent chirrup. He skinned his knees in the gutters of this street; he nourished himself smearily with its bananas; he broke its dirty windows and eluded its brass-and-blue clothed curator. When he was 13, his mother purchased a piano...
...three sets on display consist of a backyard scene in a 'tenement district of Greenwich Village, a view of Union Square as Don Passos sees it, and a tableau curtain very similar to that used in the "Chauve Souris." Color and lighting run, riot in these sets and obtain a startling effect of ordered disorder. In addition to the sets, there is on display a mask designed by I. M. Simon '27, a member of the club...