Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this year, Phillips Brooks House has received eight applications from outside organizations for entertainers. Most of these requests have come from Oliurches in the vicinity, while one has come from the South Boston Neighborhood House, and another from Reading, a suburb of Boston. Churches which have made arrangements for entertainment are the Dudley Street Baptist Church, the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Saint Peter's Church, Saint Ausganius Church, and the First Congregational Church...
...church. I played Corry Kinchela. the villain. . . . The hero was played by James J. Walker, now Mayor of the City of New York. ... I have often said that my prominence in them [amateur theatricals] played no small part in bringing me to the attention of the people of my neighborhood, which, unquestionably, in time to come, had something to do with my elections...
...recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on Egyptian archaeology, will address a gathering in the Main Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock to night. His subject will be the high lights of last summer's Harvard expedition for purposes of excavation in the neighborhood of the great pyramids. He will be introduced by E. A. Hooton, Associate Professor of Anthropology...
...safe pastime is it to expose transgressions of city officials and gangsters in the Chicago neighborhood. Samuel Goldberg, East Chicago grocer, had told the Federal grand jury "too much." Uneasily he confided to Federal officials that he had been threatened by members of the East Chicago police force. Then a Negro friend of his persuaded him to go for a stroll. He was "put on the spot," plugged full of gangster bullets. There armed citizens stood guard night and day to prevent a general witness massacre...
...blast an entrance. The ignition battery did not work. Father O'Neil returned for another heavy load of dynamite, ran in, laid it, ran back. Danny Daniels was seen at the cellhouse window trying to shoot the priest just before the explosion shattered all remaining windows in the neighborhood, blew men's hats off and buried the cellhouse in a heavy pall of smoke. A company of militia charged in, expecting to find a great breach in the convicts' fortress. But the masonry had held. The militia had to retreat and wait for a 75-millimeter field...