Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DIARY WITHOUT DATES-Enid Bagnold-Morrow ($1.50). THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYS-Franklin P. Adams-Simon & Schuster ($6). During the War Enid Bagnold ("National Velvet") worked in a hospital in a London suburb, kept a diary, fragments of which were published in 1919. An oblique, suggestive little volume, a mosaic of impressions, it created a small literary sensation, led to the dismissal of its 19-year-old author for "a breach of military discipline." While it is not a record of the horrors of War in a conventional sense, A Diary Without Dates is charged with a sense...
...wouldn't be so bad if Cambridge were an ordinary city, but it isn't. Living expenses are twice as high here as in Belmont, an average suburb. And whereas one may live modestly in New York for a monthly rent of $45, here in this comparatively tiny village there is no approach to such economy. The causes are two. First, there are the exceptionally high taxes. Second, there is the fact that so many houses and apartments of approximately the same standard are demanded that the owners are able to hold out for exorbitant prices...
...from motherless, day or night, is the weeping infant in the Union Central Life Insurance Co. advertisement. He is Robert Jr., happy 18-month-old son of Lawyer & Mrs. Robert Burch of Winnetka, swank Chicago suburb. The Burches let their son pose as a favor to their friend, Photographer Arthur Dailey of Evanston, Ill., who had received an order for "a photo of a healthy baby with lots of personality, crying as if its heart would break ... a cry of neglect and not of anger." Photographer Dailey worked for more than an hour to make happy Baby Burch feel neglected...
...months ago two cocky young Harvardrmen decided that Massachusetts, which is liberally endowed with giveaway country weeklies, had no good ones. To amend the situation they started the Brookline Citizen in Boston's swankest suburb, proceeded to give it away to some 18,000 Brooklinites. By last week at least one reader had looked the gift horse in in the mouth and found it not to his liking. On the Citizen's editorial page appeared this letter from one Peter McMurrer: Will you kindly refrain from having the Citizen deposited at my door and thus save...
...market. A fee of $600,000 was necessary to persuade the bankers to take it at any price. Hundreds of thousands were lavished on promotion. Out of the goodness of his heart William Jennings Bryan gave 50 bond salesmen special fight talks. Today Coral Gables is a pleasant Miami suburb with a population of about 5,000. Taxes on vast sections of the city are uncollectible and only $329,000 has been paid on its public debt in the past four years. Of that sum, the bondholders got $64,000. The bondholders protective committee got the rest...