Word: tenements
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...Sullivans' tenement apartment was in a part of Harlem that was already going to seed. Ed's twin, who was small and puny next to his larruping brother, died in his first year. The dead twin still looms symbolically in Ed's imagination. Whenever he was whaled by his father or switched by the nuns at his parochial school, Ed would sob passionately that everything would have been different "if only Danny were here." Even today Ed mystically attributes his excess of energy to some supernatural source of supply fed him by the dead twin...
...recovery of the stolen arms. A few hours after the raid, three I.R.A. men were picked up but the truck they were driving contained only a portion of the 80,000 rounds of stolen ammunition. Scotland Yard got its second, break when an informer phoned from a tenement district in north London called the "Irish Channel'' because of the number of Irish immigrants resident there...
Along the littered streets of Manhattan's East Harlem, past dingy doorways and under rusting fire escapes strolled a young Yaleman and a Boston University graduate student, wearing baggy old trousers and work shirt. As they passed, youngsters greeted them by name or tugged their arms. Lounging tenement dwellers nodded brusquely in their direction. In a neighborhood traditionally hostile to strangers, that signified acceptance. It was also a victory for what the students stood for: the church...
...tenement, the college boys began by welcoming the building's youngsters to their apartment, eventually got almost all of them to join church youth groups. Neighborhood men sometimes suggest that the boys join them for a beer (although most of them do not ordinarily drink, they make a special point of accepting such invitations...
...befriended young Sandhurstman Winston Churchill. Through later years Churchill mentioned "the great American orator Bourke Cockran" so often that Lady Churchill threatened to walk off the platform if she heard the name again. A typical flight of Cockran's soaring speech: "The dweller in the tenement house, stooping over his bench, who never sees a field of waving corn, who never inhales the perfume of grasses and of flowers, is yet made the participator in all the bounties of Providence, in the fructifying influence of the atmosphere, in the ripening rays of the sun," etc., etc. Cockran...