Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was precisely what Rev. Dwight Jacques Bradley of Newton, Mass, was making ready to do last week. Four years ago he went to Boston's smart, pleasant suburb to be pastor of. First Church, Congregationalist, which in 265 years has had only twelve pastors. First Church has 1,013 well-fed worshippers. Next month Dr. Bradley is leaving it to take charge of Union Church in Boston's down-at-heel South End, on the wrong side of the New York, New Haven & Hartford tracks...
...Stoefen retained their U. S. doubles championship by defeating John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison 6-4, 9-7, 3-6, 6-4. At Rye, N. Y., most of the first-class tennists in the U. S. assembled to put the finishing touches on their games. In the citified suburb of Forest Hills. L. I., groundskeepers rolled, clipped and patted the Stadium courts of the West Side Tennis Club where this week 90 players will start in what, until officials see fit to sanction an open, remains the most important U. S. tournament of the year?the Men's National...
...years after the War Captain Nicholas Coventry with his little daughter Lizzie knocks about the continent living on his wits. At the end of his rope, down & out, he decides to retire to the bosom of his family, peacefully dwelling in a London suburb. The family consists of solid citizens, wives, husbands, children, to whom the clever, worldlv-wise Nicholas is an adventure. Nicholas soon discovers that there are good pickings. Brother-in-law Charles, devoted husband and father, is an easy mark for Nicholas' charm. The Black Sheep finds it convenient to help himself to money and valuable articles...
When his plump-cheeked wife got the news in the London suburb of Forest Hill, she gave regal audience to newshawks: "I intend to take my responsibilities as Queen seriously. My two sons are excited at the idea that they are now Princes." But before the royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker...
...suburb of Pittsburgh, site of the Carnegie steel mills, scene of the great Homestead Steel Strike in 1892, which lasted 143 days...