Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wielded a spade in heavy rain last week, planted three pines to mark the site of Italy's 1941 World exhibition on the road to Rome's seaport, Ostia. Work began at once on the exhibition's buildings which will be permanent, will become a new suburb of Rome after the show is over...
...BURNING COURT-by John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Skilfully written, highly improbable murder mingled with Black Magic in a Philadelphia suburb...
...poor time to return to the U. S. In Depression times, even lavish Manhattan publishers had no use for a non-commercial author. Alec had to take his family to live with his in-laws, narrow middle-class people in a narrow middle-class New Jersey suburb. He quickly found that the sacrifice of his talent and a willingness to work at anything were not sufficient qualifications. At last he got work as a farmhand. He was not very good at it, worked with a chip on his shoulder that eventually lost him the job. Then he took anything...
...there she cannot help laughing, and that ends their brief stay. They take ship to China; she to aid her country against the Japanese invader, Juan for the ride. Once in Shanghai, Kuo Kuo gets more patriotic, less amorous, by the hour. During the bombardment of Chapei, Shanghai suburb, he rescues two beautiful sisters, Russians but Siamese twins. Since the other fair charmer is never away, he cannot be happy with either, but he has some close calls...
...Edward Newhouse-Furman ($2.50). "First novel of American Communist Party life," the pure Red romance of a youthful New York organizer in the Farm Belt, by a 25-year-old "Old Bolshevik" who got his start at 7 as class delegate to a school "soviet" in a Budapest suburb...