Word: tenements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them do missionary work, start local classes. But several have gone to college after the summer course and one made Phi Beta Kappa. To show "what Bryn Mawr meant to me," one alumna led a former director of the school into a new, glistening, modern bathroom in her tenement flat, boasted: "There's not another bathroom for miles around...
...dank, one-room Chicago tenement, agents of the board of health last fortnight discovered a pair of starving, premature twins, a boy and a girl who did not look alike. While hospital nurses washed and fed them, health officers last week tried to get their mother, a woman of 36, two years a widow, to clarify a complex situation. She had already had twelve children. Eight of those, ranging from 18 to two years of age, were living. She could not tell whether the father of her latest pair was one Luis Ersing, 24. or one Lanzarin Timoteo, 26, both...
...midst of a noisy tenement district in Manhattan's warren-like lower East Side, the school's neat, old-fashioned red brick building stands out with an air of simple respectability. In it, simple-mannered, genial, white-haired Director Melzar Chaffee considers the aptitudes, problems and ambitions of each of his hundreds of students, himself teaches some of them how to play the fiddle. Not all are children; mothers and fathers come for lessons too. The school's youngest pupil is three, its oldest 49. Fees for lessons range from 50? to $2. Children under...
Happily enough, the co-feature, "Mannequin," is also good. Joan Crawford, cast to type as a hard-working tenement girl, and Spencer Tracy, a human, two-fisted boss of the waterfront, set out to prove the highly dubious proposition that a girl, madly in love with one man, can marry another for money and then proceed to forges the first in favor of the second. One has the impression that the authors changed their minds several times in the course of writing the story; but it does have the great virtue of novelty, and, in addition, provides opportunity...
...trained under the great Thomas Henry Huxley. Geddes had turned to sociology and to the study of Edinburgh and other cities. Mumford became a student of New York. Within the next few years he covered the city systematically on foot, studied architecture, learned to tell the approximate date c tenement was built from a glance at the fire escape or the cornice...