Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's suburban Brookfield Zoo, whence Curator of Reptiles Mrs. Grace Wiley last fortnight was discharged for letting a deadly Bandy-Bandy snake disappear completely (TIME, Sept. 30), zoo attendants combed the reptile house, while police prowled over surrounding country, mothers kept their children indoors. Finally, a cleaning man swept up the loose leaves that had blown into the reptile house, picked up an armful with Bandy-Bandy asleep in their midst. Meanwhile ebullient ex-Curator Wiley advised Chicagoans who want to bathe rattlesnakes, "Get them in a good humor first and then bathe in lukewarm water. They like...
...group or outsiders. But when the auctioneer put up the securities in four big blocks Col. Ayres's bids took only two. The other two groups, largely non-Van Sweringen stocks, went to Hallgarten & Co. for $1,582,000. For control of coal mines, street railways, office buildings, suburban developments, trucking companies, a hotel, a department store and Alleghany Corp., through which they run 23,000 mi. of railroads, "O. P." and "M. J." paid...
...Chicago's suburban Brookfield Zoo, Acting Director Robert Bean fired Curator of Reptiles Mrs. Grace Wiley for letting a total of 19 snakes escape at various times from their cages. Among the missing: three Egyptian cobras whose bite is usually fatal, one deadly poisonous Bandy-Bandy and two mildly poisonous sand snakes. A keeper had found one sand snake when it bit him; a small boy brought in the other. Two of the cobras had been remarked by a woman visitor on top of a cage; the third was prodded out of a remote gutter with an acetylene blow torch...
Burt J. (for nothing) Denman, 59, nervous, energetic vice president & general manager of United Light & Power Co., has an office in Chicago's Bankers Building, lives in suburban Wilmette. A devout Methodist, he has been vice chairman of the trustees of Garrett Biblical Institute and a pillar of First Church in Evanston. Burt Denman has lately had cause to wonder about Methodism. In Hearst-papers he has seen its preachers attacked as Reds. In Methodist journals like Zion's Herald and the chain of Advocates he has read editorials criticizing businessmen, bankers and especially utilitarians like himself...
...took a turn at banking, later entered J. G. White & Co., big utility engineering and financing concern. In 1915 he shifted to Guaranty Trust Co., was president of its security affiliate by the time Mr. Morgan was ready for him. Brilliant, reserved, athletic and stubborn, he lives quietly in suburban Greenwich, Conn...