Word: tenements
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...crack-brained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. An idealistic Socialist called "The Covey" does not have the courage to go out into the streets for the doctrines he preaches when the guns begin to roll. The whole cast of tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable dunderheads who have small belief in, and no comprehension of, the patriotic rant they scream at one another. It is small wonder that Mr. O'Casey's unflattering portrait of Dublin Irishmen in the nation's darkest hour caused a riot...
...Supreme Court's judicial prerogative into the realm of juvenile felicity should be encouraged as a promising step. The science of child welfare is a new one. There will come a day, perhaps, when the fatherly hand of the justices shall have penetrated even into the dreary tenement wastes and little Oliver Twist, in starched collar and sailor-suit, will be read "Alice in Wonderland" by judicial mandate...
...title does not indicate that its intent is fraudulent. It is a sad, but honest anecdote, wisely acted and quietly written, in which Francine Larrimore, tending the Solomon sidewalk cigar stand with puzzled petulance, gives her best performance since Brief Moment. No less genuine than Florrie as self-respecting tenement dwellers are Ma Solomon, and Butcher Freiberg who, when asked for an explanation of the Solomons' misfortunes, voices the dry, dialectic theme of Spring Song: "When you are young, you expect everything from life. When you get older, you expect nothing...
...packed Williamsburg district they flew in close formation, weaved back & forth, up & down. Then, in a flash, Wong zoomed up too close. Like a buzz saw, Fong's propeller sheared off his plane's tail, sent him whirling and whining 2,000 ft. to death on a tenement roof. Fong, his propeller shattered, glided two miles to a vacant lot in Queens, stubbed his landing gear in a ditch, turned over, broke his arm. In a Brooklyn morgue that day wept Wong's white, U. S.-born wife...
Present sponsor of the survey for which Mr. Doane worked is Langdon W. Post, Tenement House Commissioner of New York City's own New Deal Administration. When Commissioner Post heard of Mr. Doane's assault on the "economy of abundance," he said: "I suppose I'll have to take the responsibility for firing him." Out next day went Mr. Doane and 26 others. One of Mr. Doane's coworkers on the survey promptly pointed out that even in 1929 46,000,000 U. S. citizens had incomes of less than $426. hence could not be expected to buy two suits...