Sentences with word «boardinghouse»

The workers lived in boardinghouses and attended church, both built by Merrimack.

It is 1950 and October Brown is a twenty - three - year - old first - year teacher thanking her lucky stars that she found a room in the best boardinghouse for Negro women teachers in Wyandotte County, Kansas.

Roz grew up scrubbing floors in the Brooklyn boardinghouse where she lived.

Most of the film takes place in a Brooklyn boardinghouse, where the title character (Streep), a Polish Holocaust survivor; her manic lover (Kevin Kline); and their neighbor, a young writer (Peter MacNicol), come to a kind of familiarity.

Hoonie marries and dies shortly thereafter leaving his 13 - year - old daughter Sunja, and her mother, to run the family boardinghouse.

Forrest is born to an Alabama boardinghouse owner (Sally Field) who tries to correct his posture by making him wear braces, but who never criticizes his mind.

It also provided a cooperative boardinghouse, theater workshops, music schools, language classes, reading groups and handicraft centers.

They moved into a ramshackle boardinghouse in Novgorod that had no hot water, no shower and only one small kitchen for 30 residents.

The owner of this property believes that by changing the status from boardinghouse to a boutique hotel he will be able to charge his residents more per day to alleviate his financial hardship.

In Stanley, I met this guy, Robin Woods, in the little boardinghouse I was staying in.

Before then, Jerôme spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the sixteen - year - old Laura and, more tantalizingly, Laura's long - legged, blonde stepsister, Claire.

Awaiting Eilis in Brooklyn is a room in a female - only boardinghouse run by an eagle - eyed landlady (Julie Walters) obsessed with protecting the reputations of the gullible, young Irish immigrants placed under her supervision.

Former pirate Jack Plank lives in a seaside boardinghouse, where he regales his housemates with tales that explain why he can't take up the careers they suggest.

In similar circumstances, others (Enrico Fossataro, old Sandor Esterházy) were forced to choose between public charity or last moments spent writhing uncomfortably at the end of a necktie, in the bathroom of a miserable boardinghouse.

Farr does a bang - up job portraying widowed Clara Driscoll and her relationship with Louis Comfort Tiffany and other characters Clara meets in Tiffany's studio and Lower East Side boardinghouse at the turn of the twentieth century.

Continued to visit Port Glasgow where he stayed at the Glencairn boardinghouse.

Back in the family boardinghouse,...

Look for Richard Dreyfuss as an extra among the bystanders in the boardinghouse, working his one line («You want me to call the police?

Their courtship is a polite one that grows in intensity, especially after Eilis is taught the ways of spaghetti - twirling by her boardinghouse chums before meeting his family.

After she passes immigration where she is told to look as though she knows where she is going and for heaven's sake don't cough, she rooms at a boardinghouse under the strict supervision but vibrant sense of humor by Mrs. Keough (Julie Walters).

At a dance she meets an Italian boy, Tony (Emory Chen), a plumber who courts her and introduces her to spaghetti — which she deftly handles back at the boardinghouse to the amazement of the young women who live there.

So the air is already thick in «The Hateful Eight» before the travelers find shelter in a boardinghouse.

Julie Walters has a featured and quite funny role as the Irishwoman running a boardinghouse for women in Brooklyn, and Domhnall Gleeson has a slow - burning charm as a suitor back in Ireland.

Julie Walters has a featured but quite funny role as the Irishwoman running a boardinghouse for women in Brooklyn, and Domhnall Gleeson has a slow - burning charm as a suitor back in Ireland.

He goes to a boardinghouse.

At his father's insistence, Hoonie learned to read and write Korean and Japanese from the village schoolmaster well enough to keep a boardinghouse ledger and to do sums in his head so he couldn't be cheated at the market.

«What I wouldn't give to have a grandson of my own one day,» the matchmaker said, making her closing gambit while peering hard at the boardinghouse keeper's creased, brown face.

Madison settled in at Mrs. House's boardinghouse at Fifth and Market, where Virginians on public business often stayed.

Annie's husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the boardinghouse she owns to pay off a debt.

He arrived there in 1903 to stay in the boardinghouse of Florence Griswold (now the Florence Griswold Museum).