Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin menage is located across the road from the Curtis home in Wyncote, Pa. (Philadelphia suburb) and consists of Mrs. Martin, two daughters, three sons. Daughter Isabel is betrothed to William Porter Oglesby, Philadelphia socialite. Son Harrison is going to Annapolis next year...
...acres of North Carolina land, has been reduced by turning one section into a forest reservation, another into a village, to 11,500 acres. To house the 2,000 people employed on the estate, Paternalist Vanderbilt built a model village in the English Cheshire style, now a suburb of Asheville. Biltmore's first Chief Forester was Gifford Pinchot, later (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Here until his death in 1914 lived George Washington Vanderbilt, studying the dialects of the American Indian in his ornate library, helping his North Carolina tenants with their farming, issuing mildly autocratic decrees. He willed...
...Ihlamour, suburb of Constantinople on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, source of drinking water for generations has been a single deep narrow well in the market place. Housewives and porters gathered there every morning to draw water for their daily needs. There one Yusuf Hanoum, leather worker, sat down to rest last week, while his pet duck, name unknown, hopped up on the well curb :to keep him company. A stray dog frightened him. With an agitated squawk Yusuf's duck fell into Ihlamour's well. Unable to extricate his pet, Leather Worker Hanoum dropped half...
...tradition, likes to play golf. He lives in the southwestern part of Chicago, keeps remarkably young-looking for a man who is no longer young in years, has a married son, a married daughter. Scot Simpson lives not south but north of Chicago, in the fashionable and rich suburb of Glencoe where he has an estate on which his favorite diversion, un-traditionally, is tennis. He is by far the largest individual stockholder in Marshall Field...
Marching two-by-two, 40 terrified schoolchildren of Kesarion, suburb of Athens, were chivied along the sidewalk last week. The older children clenched their hands bravely beneath their black pinafores. The younger howled lustily and unashamed. They were going to the hospital. It was useless for patient teachers to explain that they were merely going to the hospital to have their eyes examined in accordance with the Government's physical culture program. To children of all Balkan countries, "hospital" is a most terrible word. "Hospital" is where you die, where they torture children, cut off their ears...