Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pittsburgh's bright sun shines daily on an important street, an excellent university, an historical museum, a city section, a populous suburb and an exclusive club all bearing the name of the French fort "Duquesne," which became the British fort and the birth of our nation...
...Brown Mehard Griffith, of Sewickley. Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, was found dead yesterday morning at the bottom of an airshaft in the Somerset Hotel, 150 West Forty-seventh Street. Although police investigated the possibility that she might have jumped through the window of her room on the fourth floor, they believed later that she may have fallen over the sill of the airshaft while moving about her room in the early morning...
Horn-spectacled Gerardo Machado took the "fishing trip" stories so seriously that martial law was declared in the provinces of Havana and Pinar del Rio. At Luyano, Havana suburb, there took place the Battle of the Stocking Factory...
Died. John Newell Garfield, 39, employe of Boland & Cornelius Co. (shipping), Cleveland commander of the Crusaders (national anti-Prohibition group), grandson of James Abram Garfield, 20th President of the U. S. (assassinated in 1881); by his own hand (revolver) because of ill health; in Mentor, suburb of Cleveland...
...which Author Norris attempted to discourage. This change does not impair the values of the story so much as does the repetitious photography of the children - first as obstreperous small fry, later as simpering adolescents. Bart Carter, the writer, lives with his wife, Peggy, and urchins in a Manhattan suburb while slaving comfortably as a publisher's clerk. Mildred, a sprightly girl who remembers his literary ambitions, encourages him to make efforts at novel-writing in her apartment. Presently the Carters are divorced, Bart marries and goes abroad with Mildred, while Peggy supports the children by running a dress...