Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delayed two hours at Dundas by the wreck of the Maple Leaf, the International Limited finally got underway, sped toward Chicago to make up lost time. Scooting through Harvey, a Chicago suburb, hours later the International suddenly piled into an automobile at a crossing, scattered the bodies of three men and four women along the right...
Shirin (pronounced "Sheereen") was the child of a respectable middle-class home in a London suburb. From her blind and henpecked father she had inherited a secret strain that lifted her beyond her shoddy environment, made her seem like a changeling. On the annual family outing to the seaside, Shirin worshipped from afar the grim islet of Storn, was content never to have a closer view. But when Venn, Storn's spoiled young heir, rowed her over one day and presented her to his grandmother, she fell in love with the place. Years later, after a tragic but successful...
...Baroness Louise Poglodowska, once famed beauty of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, onetime mistress of Archduke Otto (father of the late Emperor Karl) by whom she bore two children; in a Vienna hospital, in destitution. Otto took her from the theatre when she was 22, established her in a Vienna suburb, gave her the run of his Schönau Palace. She nursed Otto on his deathbed, was granted 200,000 gold crowns by Emperor Franz Josef. After she married Baron Poglodowski the money was frittered away, her children emigrated to the U.S.; she was finally reduced to begging...
...train was a special from Atlantic City to Philadelphia, with three cars attached for Bustleton. This suburb, 17 miles from Philadelphia, is on a short spur off the New York-Philadelphia mainline. Bustleton-bound were 20 delegates returning from the 51st triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church at Atlantic City. At Philadelphia their cars were attached to a switch engine, shuttled off to Bustleton. From the dispatcher at Holmesburg Junction, 13 miles out, went word that the special had passed "on time." Then it vanished...
...father. The plot is laid in the Habsburgs' Vienna of 1844, the year the young Strauss, stepping out of the shadow of his father's contemporary fame, made his name overnight leading the orchestra 'in his own waltzes at Dommaver's Casino in the fashionable suburb of Heitzing. Until the father's death five years later, the two Johann Strausses were bitter rivals for the title of Waltz King...