Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York suburbs ravished chicken coops were called to police notice. After a headlong chase intrepid guardians shot a coyote, small craven of the dog tribe normally found on western plains. Twelve slaughtered turkeys in another suburb roused another chase. A prairie wolf, nine months old, was shot...
Died. Robert Cluett, 83, one of the founders (1901) and later (1902-07) president of Cluett, Peabody & Co. of Troy, N. Y. (Arrow collars & shirts); of heart disease; at his home in Hubbard Woods, Chicago suburb...
Reds. French Communists were content during the Paris excitement to demonstrate passively at Clichy, Soviet-infested suburb of Paris. But one midnight, as a trainload of legionaries rumbled along between Cannes and Nice, a considerable section of railroad track suddenly leaped and twisted upwards in the dark, wrenched out of place and heaped with rocky debris by a powerful explosive. The legionaries had escaped disaster by five minutes, owing to their
Although this declaration seemed to promise more stability at Hankow, it was significant that Mrs. Sun Yatsen, widow of the great Doctor, quietly retired to a suburb of Hankow last week and announced that she would withdraw entirely from the political activity there "until better councils prevail...
Carol. Likewise barred from attending King Ferdinand's funeral was his eldest son, Carol. This somewhat notorious prince, father of King Michael, still lives in seclusion in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. He has espoused, respectively in morganatic and natural union, two ladies of nonroyal blood: Mme. Zizi Lambrino, who has borne him a son, Mircea, older by two years than Michael; and Mme. Magda Lupescu, who some time ago displaced Mme. Lambrino (TIME, March...