Word: purlieus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butcher of Kingsbury Run" is a character with whom Cleveland newspapers have curdled their readers' blood since 1934, when the first of 13 dissected torsos was discovered in the city's purlieus. Neatly beheaded, arms and legs deftly removed, the grisly remains of seven men and six women suggested the work of a fiend acquainted with the meat-chopping profession. As one killing after another came to light periodically, Cleveland's harried sheriff hired a private detective named Lawrence J. ("Pat") Lyons to work on the case...
...Prince in New Zealand by Hector Bolitho was selling nicely, but not for a while did the author turn up in England, doing in 1929 a modest volume called The Later Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley and branching out from the Prince of Wales, who remembered him, into quiet purlieus of the Royal Family where a few not very exciting private papers began to be at his disposal...
...Republic. Many years ago Mr. H. L. Mencken, then enjoying a prophet's repute, found his "American Mercury" suppressed because of an article which offended the tender nostrils of the Hub. A little later, Mr. Eugene O'Neill, the American dramatic laureate, found his "Strange Interlude" banned to the purlieus of Quincy because the Back Bay would have no dealings with incest. And within the memory of the current college generation of the Morals Squad of the peerless. Boston Constabulary found it necessary to confincate certain literary works from lending libraries on the ground of offensive lecherousness...
...school system in Gary, Indiana, one of the larger fiefs in the domain of the United States Steel Corporation, named in honor of the late lord of that house. Judge Gary's ghost, outraged at what the Code Age has done to his life work, must be haunting the purlieus of Gary nightly and scaring the good doctor to death...
...purlieus of brokerage houses last week an alert ear might have heard these things whispered: 1) Irving Trust Co. would shortly absorb $191,000,000-in-deposits Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co.; 2) Chatham Phenix was heavily involved in frozen real estate loans; 3) Chatham Phenix had substantial losses through an investment in Empire State Building; 4) The assets of Chatham Phenix were depleted through the sale of Chatham Phenix Allied Corp., an investment trust sponsored by the bank's securities affiliate (TIME...