Word: exurban
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...Manhattan pretrial hearing. Her legal adversary was a sometime play producer named Luther (A Sleep of Prisoners) Greene, also something of an agrarian reformer, who claimed that Doris owed him $2,500 for applying his Greene thumb to her "tragically outmoded" 2,500-acre patch of flora in exurban Somerville. Flower Girl Duke countered that Greene was trying to make her "forget" a $1,797.45 suit she has brought against him for floral decorations grown on her farm and peddled in turn by him to Broadway shows. Doris was not irked by the petty cash involved. Snapped her attorney...