Word: streets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right' very high up indeed," can smash small operators. Hip-pocket bootleggers, some boys not over 16, peddle booze "under the 'L' on Washington Street." In nearly every office building is at least one speakeasy. Boston police deliver good whiskey to customers...
...come two days before when at Pathe Co.'s Manhattan film studio a surge of flame swashed across the wooden roof, turned the barnlike building into a man broiler. Within a half-hour ten crushed, charred bodies, including four pretty girls, were laid out on the street below a blackened sign: PATHE TALKING COMEDIES MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGH...
...week the name of Preacher Fosdick's church ceased to be a misnomer. At a meeting of the congregation in the completed portion of the new $4,000,000 edifice which most-famed-member-of-the-congregation John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is building at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street (TIME, Dec. 31). it was announced that the Riverside Church was now its legal title. Though the alteration of title was agreed upon a year ago, no legal action could be taken until a New York State law preventing a religious corporation from changing its name was amended...
President and Mrs. Lowell cordially invite all men who are students in the University to their house. 17 Quiney Street, on Christmas Eve. Tuesday from 8 to 10 o'clock in the evening...
There are all sorts of Christmases, as the Vagabond very well knows. And if the day means one thing in Boston and another in Hamilton, if it means one thing to the man in the pulpit and another to the man in the street, it at least means something to them all. That, perhaps, is more than can be said of any other holiday...