Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what they had on Richard S. Whitcomb. They had plenty. He had been general sales manager of the 'telephone company in Boston, candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in 1938, and a colonel in World War II. There was one discrepancy: his home town was Longmeadow, a suburb of Springfield, and not Worcester...
Money was useful to Roosevelt who kept himself busy socially. In his senior year, he owned "a cart and horse, with whip, rug, etc." He used to drive to the suburb of Chestnut Hill where he met the girl he became engaged to in his senior year...
...Chicago, tough Tony Accardo, reigning boss of the old Capone mob, bought himself a magnificent 22-room mansion (original cost: $500,000), in the swank suburb of River Forest, hired 20 decorators to fix up the place...
...fact of the utmost importance to the struggle with Communism. Although France has never ceased to be a Roman Catholic country in spirit, most of the French industrial proletariat and part of the peasantry have been cut off from Christianity for generations. Natives of the Paris industrial suburb of St. Denis are not converted to Marxism, they are baptized in the triune name of Marx, Lenin and Stalin...
Back home, popular young Minister Sherrill went from strength to strength among the properest Bostonians. His first parish, the Church of Our Saviour, was in the tony suburb of Brookline. Sherrill's predecessor had been an old man; Sherrill's live-wire preaching brought a dramatic increase in the Sunday turnout. There he met pretty Barbara Harris, daughter of a prosperous Brookline businessman. By taking her to baseball games in the afternoons, Sherrill managed to court her without giving the parish gossips a chance. They were married in 1921, now have a son in the ministry...