Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Anne Berdnick, 21, seeing two men struggling under her window, thought that the man on the bottom was her father. She grabbed a bottle of milk, rushed out, smashed it over the upper man's head. Dazed, lacerated, he was taken to a hospital. Anne Berdnick was amazed to find her father...
...quiet and mossy seclusion of the Poetry Room has been too little disturbed since its doors were thrown open to the University last fall. Sequestered in the upper reaches of Widener and left to blush unseen in the sterile atmosphere of the special libraries, the Poetry Room has failed to fulfill its high promise. Unfortunately to the difficulties of its location have been added other obstacles which discourage the ordinary mortal in pursuit of his muse...
Sixteen years ago a young bride & groom, students at New York University, were hunting for a place to live in upper Manhattan. The landlady at one rooming-house tried to interest them by saying that she never took in Jews. She said the wrong thing. The alert, bright-eyed little groom was of pure Hebrew stock, born in Russia, educated in Palestine. His bride, also Jewish, said as they walked away: "If we ever have a son let us call him Yehudi [which in Hebrew means "a Jew"], and let him stand or fall on his name...
...Gandhi has three teeth (two upper incisors, one lower left center). He keeps them clean by the dantan, also necessary for tongue-cleansing, as explained by TIME. Eating no meat, he uses his false teeth on few occasions.-ED. Dickey Underbid...
...Home? No. 60 Morningside Drive is a handsome house which, from a high eminence, overlooks a park, an elevated track and a large section of Harlem. Like few other upper West Side homes, it is in the Social Register. Like few other Social Register homes, it is known throughout the world. An invitation to Dr. Butler's is New York's ultimate accolade to distinguished visitors. Chatelaine of No. 60 is Dr. Butler's second wife, Kate La Montagne. She is unobtrusively busy when dignitaries are around. Every March Dr. Butler goes to Brunswick, Ga., every June to Europe, every...