Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Odlum differed from most of his Wall Street elders in that he made fortunes while they were losing them. He concluded that the logical person to run a swank women's specialty shop was a woman. His wife was no swankier than he (they live simply in suburban Forest Hills, prefer Utah to Europe for vacationing), but after she wrote a report for him on the basis of a month's inspection of the store, "Tenney" Odlum was installed as a special adviser. One of the first things she did was to move the millinery department down...
Last week John Smiukse went up to Tarrytown and paid his 25¢ to see the Nightmare of 1934. He entered the room behind a giggling crowd of suburban housewives and stood for a minute looking at the picture. Suddenly he pulled a bottle of paint-remover from his pocket, splashed it over the canvas, yanked the caricature from the wall, touched a match to it. The flames flickered out quickly, but the picture was ruined. Housewives fled screaming. John Smiukse was instantly arrested. While Mr. Birch-Field and Jere Miah II conferred whether to make the charge arson or malicious...
...onetime Labor M. P., Frederick John Perry started his tennis career in a suburban parlor. He took up table tennis at his home in Baling, became proficient enough to win the world's championship at Budapest in 1929. In 1930, when he was 20, his mother, to whom he was devoted, died after a long illness. Her son's nervous and physical condition was then so poor that doctors despaired of keeping him alive unless he discovered some absorbing outdoor interest. Perry took a six months' leave from his job in a London sports shop, turned seriously to tennis, which...
...tycoon felt something like a slap in the face last week when one of Europe's biggest industrialists quietly dubbed railway electrification obsolete. Arriving in Manhattan for a week's visit, Managing Director Sir Henri W. A. Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell said: "Electrification, except in a suburban way, is a thing of the past. Diesel power is far cheaper than electricity. With electricity, if the power plant breaks down, nothing moves, but with Diesel power the railways are absolutely independent. Why, Diesel trains are so light that we could start new railroads at less investment than would be necessary...
...daily columnist. Now he has built himself a house. He serves up 34 disconnected pieces about the new edifice and the community in which he and his wife find themselves. He fails to give the name of the town but it is plainly one of those small suburban "paradises" on the California coast...