Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago suburb 82 old ladies declared warmly: "We are all young enough to believe in love as a very important part of international relations." To prove it the ladies gave a shower last week at the Hollywood, ILL. British Old People's Home. Amid toasts drunk in sauterne or tea, they sent a copy of Love Ledger, a bride's first-year book, and a hand-stitched sachet pillow to Princess Elizabeth...
...Lehut is 43, small, blonde and shapely. She lives and is politically active, to put it mildly, in the grimy suburb of La Courneuve (voting strength: about 8,000) in Paris' "Red Belt." Ordinarily the town politics of La Courneuve are not big news. But last week Renée Lehut made the transatlantic cables by doing something that millions of women do every day. She changed her mind...
...Wilhelm went to live in a Paris suburb. One after another, his old friends dropped away. In 1935, he was sued together with a French actress for collecting money allegedly for the restoration of the "lost Ukrainian crown." Hastily he left Paris, went to Switzerland, thence back to Socialist Vienna...
...Rome, too, there was a battle. Into the lassitude of falling autumn leaves burst the garish colors of election posters, the shrill sounds of political hoodlumism. One night, when right-wing Socialist Matteo Matteotti tried to speak in a shabby Rome suburb, Communists attacked him and knocked him to the ground (he is the son of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist martyr killed by Mussolini's thugs in 1924, whom the Communists still treat as an idol). Another evening, Communists cornered a group of young Christian Democrats. One Catholic youth of 22 was kicked, beaten and knifed to death...
...other language on storefronts, on signs or in advertising. All over Mexico municipalities put his decrees into local law. So Blue Bars became Cantinas Azules, Fashion Shops became Salones de Modas. After a postmaster refused to deliver mail to Chapultepec Heights, Mexico City's fashionable suburb came to be known as "Lomas de Chapultepec...