Word: tenements
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...Williams offered to take Coles with him to make house visits. Armed with his black doctor's bag, his "great coat" and his notebook, Williams tended to the poor and sick of Paterson's tenement houses with Coles by his side...
...course, there's a reason Hitchcock didn't use "Window Overlooking the Path Around Lowell House" instead of the movie's New York tenement. Here there are no suspicious Aryan costume-jewelry salesmen, few wives, no wardrobe like Grace Kelly's, no Yorkshire terriers and no soundtrack to speak...
...Naomi is the youngest narrator and the compendium of three generations of tenement dysfunction. While mysteriously drawn to her great-grandmother and the mystery of the egg, Naomi firmly inhabits the modern world. Her thoughts are descriptive rather than analytical, and this, combined with her youthful naivete, fail to give the reader any reason to feel an emotional stake in her future...
John Francis ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald 1863-1950 Tenement born, he became Boston's mayor, and sang from a tabletop at grandson Jack's Senate election...
Children who have read Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family will find it easy to picture immigrant life by imagining Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie calling on friends in what is now the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a restored tenement building on Orchard Street...