Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rich, suburban Bronxville, N. Y., has one of the most progressive and expensive school systems in the land. From nursery school up, Bronxville youngsters have much their own say about what they study, how they study it. When a subject must be covered, teachers make it so attractive that pupils imagine they are choosing it themselves. In junior high school English, mathematics and the social sciences are required. Elective subjects emphasized are French, German and Latin-all previously offered in grammar school. Senior high school students take, in addition to regular college preparatory work, "creative" courses like art, dramatics, handicraft...
...Waterloo legs, Sir Bernard thought, had been lifeless only twelve hours. When railway attendants reported that three lackadaisical young men had loitered around the car in which the legs were found before the train left a suburban station, Scotland Yard announced that they are being "sought for questioning." As in Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1, when found, the Waterloo legs were wrapped in newspapers which had absorbed most of the blood, then encased in brown paper...
...year-old Son Franklin entered Harvard in 1933 with one unpunished arrest for speeding already chalked against him. He got off with a dressing down from a traffic officer at Windsor Locks, Conn, that autumn, an other at Union, Conn, the following spring. On an icy street in suburban Boston last March his automobile knocked down 60-year-old Mrs. Daniel P. O'Leary. Authorities excused him for the accident, fined him $20 for using out-of-state license plates beyond the 30-day limit. But Mrs. O'Leary, having suffered many a cut and bruise, started action...
Rich and rare is the religious fare served up each & every Sunday in Detroit. From his suburban Charity Crucifixion Tower Father Coughlin broadcasts to the nation. In the Episcopal Cathedral Bishop Herman Page holds forth ably. Methodist residents of what they call the "Fourth City" know that Rev. Merton Stacher ("Mert") Rice of mammoth Metropolitan Methodist Church has twice declined a bishopric. Likewise nationally known in their respective churches are Presbyterian Joseph Anderson Vance, Quaker Morton C. Pearson, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin. Congregationalists Charles Haven Myers and Warren Wheeler Pickett, Disciple of Christ Edgar De Witt Jones...
...London last week Death, in the form of pneumonia, came to George Allardice Riddell, First Baron of Walton Heath. Lord Riddell left neither title nor barony. He was childless and the seat of his title was one bare room at his suburban golf club. Thus abruptly came an end to the career of an amiable British gentleman who was one of the most successful publishers the world has ever known...