Word: tenements
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...Montreal's teeming Hochelaga tenement district last week, five moppets played cops & robbers in an alley behind a branch of the Banque Canadienne Nationale. Suddenly a man with a gun in his hand came tearing out of the bank, pursued by a yelling clerk. This was the real thing...
...Club's spring production, "Winterset," is the best play to grace Brattle Hall's boards in several months. Written by Maxwell Anderson, it draws upon the notorious Sacco-Vanzetti scandal for plot material, and features unsavory characters with turned-up collars and shifty glances. An alleyway and an adjoining tenement are the settings, while a conveniently located river provides an easy means for disposing of embarrasing cadavers...
Factory and tenement poured forth their faithful proletarians. No one sang the Ça ira, no one screamed, "à la lanterne!" But horny fists were raised and Marxist throats intoned the Internationale. At Ivry-sur-Seine, across the high road from the south, rose a barrier of cars, trucks and packing boxes...
...Manhattan last week, apartment hunters followed a newspaper ad which offered 2½-room cooperative apartments in a "new development" with "elevator, steam heat, Frigidaires." The trail led to a grimy old six-story tenement with an assessed value of $15,000, in a run-down neighborhood off First Avenue. The modern apartments existed only on a set of architect's plans, the building was not open for inspection, the work of remodeling had not yet started. But the owner easily sold 14 apartments for $3,500 each, and the monthly carrying charges were far above rents prevailing...
Fires & Faces. Weegee does a better than ordinary job with the run-of-the-mine stuff-bodies crumpled on the pavement, flames licking a tenement roof, skirts swirling in the wind-but people and faces are what he is after. Heads popping out of windows to see tragedy in the street below, the nervous crowd around the body of a murdered man, a man eating a hot dog, these are the pictures that make the book...