Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years Dr. Hans Sattler, shell-shocked German-born Hungarian engineer has lived in a quiet Budapest suburb, trying to forget the War. Daytime it was easy, but at night he could not sleep. Recently Dr. Sattler's neighbors began to worry about the young man. They found that he left home every night, returned each morning with sleepless eyes, unshaven, his clothes muddy. Last week a local surgeon and several of Dr. Sattler's friends waited until the shell-shocked engineer left his home, followed him at a distance until he disappeared in a neighboring wood. Hours later...
...tradition. In the late President Eliot it was almost a loyalty. With Mr. Lowell it may be an acute form of colonialism to which a part of New England is strangely and perversely addict. Hence, probably, the house idea at Cambridge which would cloister the young men in Boston suburb reproductions of Baliol, Magdalene, etc. There is an endowment available for one of them. A further projection of the idea is that the athletics of the university shall be principally contests between the houses, as at Oxford and Cambridge, with university matches only with Yale...
...Nationalist Government with which he is out of sympathy, has long since made patrician Scholar Hu extremely careful of his delicate, parchment-like skin. For months he has spent his studious nights in the well guarded foreign quarter of Shanghai, venturing out only by day to the suburb of Woosung where he is president of a private college called the China National Institute. Recently, however, Dr. Hu, daring much, contributed to the leading Chinese intellectual review, the monthly Crescent Moon, three articles flaying the Nationalist Government. Last week Nationalist's militaristic leaders moved to take heavy-fisted vengeance on their...
Even the official nuptials of Prince Franz (as distinguished from his morganatic marriage) were performed clandestinely some weeks ago at night behind closed church doors in Lainz, Vienna suburb. An anonymous threat of assassination if the marriage took place had been received. Even last week this fear hung over the long-thwarted lovers. Paradoxically both are immensely rich, envied by people who do not understand their years of trial. Princess Elsa is the daughter of an Austrian coal tycoon. Prince Franz is supposed to have inherited nearly a hundred million dollars-not to mention the ancestral Liechtenstein Art Gallery...
After the War he had $200. He borrowed $300 from his fiancee, $600 from friends of his father, $19,000 from Brooklyn bankers, started putting up small houses in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn suburb. His carpentering and plastering employes mostly came to work in their automobiles. Mr. Chanin arrived via bicycle. He sold his-$10,000 houses for $13,000; was off on the way to his "56 stories of sunlight...