Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the Adamses are to Boston, the Biddles to Philadelphia, the Pinckneys to Charleston, the Nevins are to Sewickley, Pa., smart suburb of Pittsburgh. So numerous are Nevins, rich ones and poor ones, that Sewickley churchgoers, according to local legend, sometimes start their prayers thus: "Our Father, who art a Nevin." Most famed of the tribe was Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer of The Rosary, who died in 1901. First biography of Nevin was written by Vance Thompson (1913). Published this week was a bigger & better job, Ethelbert Nevin* by John Tasker Howard (Our American Music; Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour...
Your story in TIME, Aug. 12 is swell, but when you refer to Marblehead as a "smug Boston suburb," it's just too bad. Imagine Marblehead a suburb of anything...
...coal-black Senegalese. Vice-Admiral Louis Berthelot of the Toulon naval station declared: "The arsenal workmen have sent me a delegation saying that they do not wish to be linked with last night's bloodshed which they ascribe to underworld agitators eager for loot." Meeting in a suburb three miles outside Toulon, the arsenal workers cheered their regular leaders, who urged them to return to work. Said Prefect Maunier grimly: "If the workers recommence their rioting, it will be their misfortune. We are ready for them now: In future Toulon will be so strongly guarded that any outbreak will...
...Archibald M. Willard. Some may be aware that the first hangs in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art but few indeed know that the original of The Spirit of '76 is the particular pride of Marblehead, Mass, where it adorns that smug Boston suburb's ancient Abbott Hall...
Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, who last winter had to hail a ride in a truck to reach the State House in time to make a speech, bought an autogyro for commuting between his home in Haverford, Philadelphia suburb, and Harrisburg, learned...