Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authors, who graduated from George Pierce Baker's Cambridge workshop to Broadway success with You and I, has written his second comedy of American life. The theme deals, not, as the title suggests, with Benjamin Franklin and his loaves of bread, but with the aristocracy of the American suburb...
...Turkey to receive Karagach (junction suburb of Adrianople, across the river Maritza) and the railway line from Luli Gurgas, on the Bulgarian Frontier, to Karagach. This means shifting the Turko-Greek boundary in Thrace further west...
...museum will be built at Merion, suburb of Philadelphia, which will be unique in America. Ihe $3,000,000 collection of paintings which it will house, will contain nothing dated earlier than 1870-75. will be a museum on the scale of one of the great older galleries, but modern" throughout, even to its own architecture. The building will have rooms arranged like studios instead of galleries and corridors...
...Story. Mr. Pinney lived in a stifling suburb, did his inadequate best in the fancy goods business, lost a good deal at poker, ate three meals a day, drank coffee with a mustache cup, came perilously close to the verge of bankruptcy, escaped by a stroke of luck?and that...
Rheinold Mory, sculptor: " I designed a statue of a nude Venus for a public fountain in a suburb of Atlantic City, but the city council would not accept it. So I clothed her in a one-piece bathing suit and hung and draped a cape over her left arm, and the council accepted...