Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Life and its glossy rivals, Editor Austin concentrated on the sort of editorial features which would appeal to home-owners and would-be home-owners of lesser incomes. She posed for photographs to illustrate practical articles on cooking and home decoration. She published helpful hints for cultivators of small, suburban gardens. She went into the details of furnishing a family camp. Housewives were instructed on combining a guest room and study,were told what an espalier fruit tree is and how unpretentious Anne Morrow Lindbergh's aerial wardrobe contains one pair of shoes "suitable to wear at balls...
...automobile lanes, the bottom for three truck lanes and two train tracks to be used by Southern Pacific interurban trains and Key Route tramways. That does not mean that Pullman passengers from New York will now be able to ride through to San Francisco. Only lightweight suburban railway cars, no regular main-line trains, will be allowed to cross Bay Bridge. There are no pedestrian walks...
...struck hot boilers, explosions and fires flared through the city. An exploding tank car in the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad yards burned three business houses, two homes, a municipal garage. A nut & bolt plant, two steel plants, an oil works blazed away while firemen sloshed and fumbled. In a suburban house some 30 refugees were rocked, showered with bricks, singed when their shelter exploded and caught fire...
Famed as the home of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Englewood is a solid suburban community whose weekly News lately editorialized in favor of a town incinerator which would prevent Englewood's poor from eating their fellow-citizen's garbage. Englewood's First M. E. Church, not the swankest in town but the largest and richest of the denomination in Bergen County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons...
Even the Genro. Scouring Tokyo and suburban resorts, more mustards slew the Inspector General of Military Education, jovial General Jotaro Watanabe. They gravely wounded the Son of Heaven's Grand Chamberlain, doughty Admiral Kantaro Suzuki. They set fire to a beach hotel from which had escaped venerable Count Nobuaki Makino, for many years Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and one of the very few Japanese whom constant duty and association have brought humanly close to the Divine Emperor...