Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puppy Special," a baby Austin, called every day last week. The large blue trucks with cream paneling called three times. Along Philadelphia's swank, suburban Main Line, in & around socialite Hewlett, L. I. and in Reading, Pa. they stopped at the homes of William Wallace Atterbury, William Wistar Comfort, Mrs. Isaac Clothier Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and hundreds of others in which were 4,000 dogs, 30 cats and one raccoon. On each truck in large green letters were the words CANINE CATERING CO. above a small green Scottie. At each stop a gauntleted, high-booted young...
...fortune manufacturing guns and munitions for the North during the Civil War. He went to Europe in 1867, established a cartridge factory in the south of France. His capital increased by profits from the Franco-Prussian War, he moved to Paris to set up a new arms factory in suburban St. Denis. Ben Hotchkiss, like his compatriots, Gatling and Maxim, was one of the inventors of the modern machine gun. One of the firm's best sellers, now long outmoded, was Director Benet's own invention. Though the U. S. Army prefers the Browning, France uses the Hotchkiss...
...Near suburban Barbizon, spiritual home of the world's greatest landscape painters, Mayor Roger could contain himself no longer last week. The village plumber had been to the Villa Ker Monique to repair pipes. He had found it barricaded with barbed wire and guarded by two fierce watchdogs. He had been locked in the room in which he worked. The village postman added the sinister fact that no mail ever came to Ker Monique. A courier on a motorcycle came there every day from Paris. With Stavisky, international spy rings, and rumors of brewing civil wars to inflame French...
...hostess of the suburban dinner party last September, Miss Barrows, is a curly-headed blonde with a wide drooping mouth, a Vassar graduate and a divorcée. From 1914 to 1917 she was Dr. Wirt's assistant when he was reorganizing New York City's schools. Now she is a school building expert in the Office of Education. The other two women conform, like Miss Barrows, to a familiar Washington type: bright, obscure incumbents of small Government jobs, unmarried, unbeauteous as a rule, and with fairly elemental ideas about politics. Mary Taylor is editor...
...poked a chair-leg into a boy's eye and twisted it ''to distract attention of the class" from herself. Another had sat furred and hatted in a warm room complaining that the janitor was trying to freeze her. Several had commuted to work from suburban White Plains' Bloomingdale Hospital for mental ailments...