Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actuality, 43-year-old Lara takes a rather objective view of women. He divorced his wife a decade ago and has since lived alone in a luxurious rented house in Mexico City's suburb of Chapultepec. He affects Byronic collars, horn rimmed harlequin spectacles, and usually looks fatigued. He is proud of a sumptuous gold hand-carved wrist watch given him last New Year's by President Avila Camacho. Its twin was presented to President Roosevelt...
This Happy Breed, a cavalcade of lower middle class life in a London suburb between two wars, is an attempted salute to the common man. Extending from 1919 to 1939, it tells the sometimes drab story of the durable Gibbons family, their births, marriages, deaths, their small joys and fair-sized sorrows. Rich in accurate observation, and at moments funny, it is lean on drama and lacking in depth. No British Chekhov or even Odets, Coward has the wish to be a serious dramatist without the wherewithal. A born sophisticate, he is at ease on figure skates, but slightly awkward...
After an unsuccessful trip to Madrid-she was still in her 305-Avril decided to retire. She married a respectable "protector," one Maurice Biais (who died in 1926), and withdrew to a quiet life in a Paris suburb. In 1933, almost destitute, widowed Jane was obliged to abandon her house, enter a Paris home for the aged. Only once again did the world hear of her. That was on May 31, 1935, when 67-year-old Avril emerged to dance once more at a Toulouse-Lautrec ball. Wrote the old lady in 1937: "In this retreat I have nothing...
...Varas Square, the Senate voted 30-to-10 for a break with the Axis. When the result was announced, the crowd broke into the national anthem. That evening tough, silent President Juan Antonio Ríos conferred at length with his Cabinet at his summer home in a Santiago suburb. The next morning he put his signature on the rupture decree...
...plant through whose intricacies Author Nichols guides the reader is an oil refinery in a suburb south of Chicago. The time is quietly crucial-1921-22-when new oil-cracking processes were first proving themselves. Author Nichols handles the change with so little progress ballyhoo, so little bitterness, so persuasively as a picture of individuals who are also industrial archetypes, that the story reaches beyond its own modesty into genuine pathos and touches the boundaries of tragicomedy...