Word: tenements
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...plans as thorough as an army's offensive. The department was at near peak strength; by special order no more than 12% of personnel would be on vacation at any one time. The remaining 88% turned eyes away from the schools and wintertime haunts, kept watch on the tenement streets and summer hangouts...
...from Steerage. In the spring of 1897, Bernard, then 7½, landed with his mother from the old Rotterdam's steer age to take up residence in the tenement slums of East Boston. Bright little Bernie skipped every other grade at Lyman Grammar School, put in a year at Mechanic Arts High School before a brother's death made him pick up a bread winner's load in his close, protective Jewish family. To get his first job at the age of 14, he started one morning in the center of Boston's business district...
...blond Marlon Brando, with an Actor's Studio slur to his German accent, plays "the young, golden god of war"; Montgomery Clift is a tenement Jew persecuted in his barracks; Dean Martin portrays the Broadway high-liner who goodhumoredly admits his own cowardice. And in an example of sophisticated sex, May Britt takes the part of a German commander's homefront spouse--a sort of Berlin community bed-warmer with those "rest your head here, soldier" eyes and a half-mast evening gown leaving only the moral question to a man's imagination...
...find public housing so closely duplicating the squalor it was designed to supplant." A heavy portion of the 300,000 Puerto Ricans and many of the 300,000 Negroes who have arrived in the city in the past seven years have settled in such projects and in older tenement slums...
Faith & Doubt. Everywhere the new President was beset by signs of liberty sliding out of control. The endless sweep of the frontier had recently been shut off; the trend was on to the tenement. Capital, levering itself out of the chaos of cutthroat competition, was forming monoliths of monopoly. Labor was adolescent, agitated, angry. Government at best was minimal and at worst could be bought. The radical vote was rising. Said Theodore Roosevelt: "There had been in our country a riot of individualistic materialism . . ." But the darker portent, as the new President saw it. was that the nation was lurching...