Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When you discontinued on the air I discontinued purchasing your periodical, and in the small suburb where I reside at least one-half dozen people whom I know intimately did the very same thing...
...Dublin street-fighting of 1922, interned for 15 months. He married a niece of Maud Gonne MacBride whose soldier-husband, a Boer War gallant, was executed in Dublin after the 1916 rebellion and whose son Sean is now active in Irish Republican affairs. Author Stuart lives at Glendalough (Dublin suburb). Novelist Liam O'Flaherty is his good friend. Flying is his sideline. Unpublished in the U. S. are another Stuart novel, Woman & God, and a volume of verse to which the Royal Irish Academy, with Poets William Butler Yeats and George William ("A.E.") Russell judging, gave a prize...
Germany's touted Lilian Harvey is a gay open-faced little girl (85 lb., 5 ft. 1 in.) who is willing to make faces and can dance. She is 23, born in Muswell Hill, a London suburb, of a German father and English mother. Her parents chose May 1914 to go to Germany for a vacation. She has since lived in Central Europe, studied dancing under Mary Zimmerman, was discovered in Vienna by German Cinema Director Richard Eichberg...
Nine years ago Mrs. Lillian Cisar paid $9,800 for a bungalow on North Taylor Avenue in Oak Park, Chicago suburb. In 1927 her taxes were $219. In 1928 they were upped to $544. Mrs. Cisar like many another irate property owner, refused to pay them. Last week the Cisar bungalow was spotlighted by a decision of the Illinois Supreme Court in a case involving Cook County real estate assessments...
...fading autumn sunshine. A young Frenchman mounted the steps of a house in a Paris suburb and touched the knocker. His dress was one of conscious affectation, that of a dandy of the Restoration; he was eighteen years old, and his elbow was crooked around a thin manuscript. A kindly neighbor in his country home had secured for him an invitation to meet Saint-Beuve, the great literary critic, and read some poetry to him. Saint-Beuve's library was soon vibrating to the warm emotional tone with which a young man reads poetry, particularly when the poetry happens...