Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...82nd birthday, when I had refused to be interviewed, Rumor cried I was dead. Servants, at my home, No. 998 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, told newspapermen I was accustomed to sleep late." The Rev. Canon Frederic Lewis Donaldson, first Socialist ever to become a Canon of Westminster Abbey: "In Barnet, suburb of London, I said: 'The silk [top] hat is a vicious, vile, ugly symbol of the ungodly Victorian. It is hard, unyielding, uncomfortable and pretentious, with an outside gloss and an inside smell. It is responsible for much of the baldness of the late generation which it typifies...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge motored to Edgemoor, Washington suburb. There is the home of Harry S. New of Indiana, Postmaster General, whose dinner guests they were, and with them a dozen Hoosiers, including Author & Mrs. Booth Tarkington...
Last week in London, Viscountess Rhondda, feminist, business woman, editress (with Rebecca West and others) of Time and Tide (weekly), declared in an interview: "The 'smart set' is not a tiny fraction of society playing about in Mayfair. Every suburb and provincial city has its smart set now - its gossip of leisured, idle, irresponsible women. . . . They permeate society with the ideals of the harem. . . . Sex is their profession. So they put an enormous value on sex, on sex discussion and 'problems,' on the high importance of sex attraction. . . . They have become a menace...
...chorus really do shine. In that famous scene once used by Ed Wynne where Etta Banana and Joe Banana split, each to go his way down the slippery path of life, the tragedy would be altogether too near the heart of the city to be called a suburb, were if not for the fact that this hand picked chorus from the far side of the Sahara proved conclusively that when art reaches pedal extremities it is not footless. In fact one would do well to spend an evening, two dollars and a half, and three quarters of a tumbler full...
...Minister of Marine, speaking before 1,000 notables gathered to watch the launching of the cruiser Kinugasa last week at Kobe, spoke with feeling of great Admiral Togo, now 78, who lay at that moment ill-and perhaps dying- in the modest house which he occupies in a suburb of Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations...