Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Women's Tennis Team contending at Wimbleton, London suburb, for the Wightman Cup, was decisively beaten by its British sisters...
...nomination and then started for Chicago, which welcomed him with cheers. His wife and his two adopted children, Dana, 12 and Virginia, 10, met him. He hugged them all, went to his office at the Central Trust Co. for an hour, then went home to Evanston, puritanical northern suburb of Chicago, to which Mr. Dawes is something of a tin deity...
Twenty minutes from the St. Lazare Station is the Parisian suburb of Colombes. There, France has erected a stadium seating 30,000, and a vast playing field for the 1924 Olympics. Within the ground will be a bank, barbershop, postoffice, cafes, bars and many other trappings of civilization. It was semi-officially opened last week by a rugby match wherein Wales defeated France 10 to 6. Because it rained and because most of the French team were from southern France, the Frenchmen suffered a chill, so they said...
...week before his birthday, Dr. Eliot went over to Brookline, fashionable Boston suburb. He paid a call on one Mrs. Guild. It was her 97th birthday. She was his sister. Mary was her name. Both Charles and Mary were children of Samuel Eliot, Congressman, Treasurer of Harvard, Mayor of Boston, who died...
...almost blind, Miss Mary Cassatt is exhibiting and selling work covering 50 years, in Paris. She plans to retire to a suburb of Paris, or else return to her native America and live in Manhattan...