Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bucharest the visiting royalty were rushed through the city proper and out to the suburban Cotroceni Palace. There Tsar Boris and King Carol slipped head phones on their ears and called up King Alexander of Jugoslavia, 250 miles away in Belgrade. Alexander, who plays the game of France and is encouraged by her to play the Dictator in Jugoslavia, had just the day before broken one premier and made another. The secret telephone conference of the three kings was supposed to prepare public opinion for a pact tying up all three Balkan kingdoms with Czechoslovakia, Greece and Turkey...
...Your Leave (by Gladys Hurlbut and Emma Wells-Richard Aldrich and Alfred de Liagre Jr., producers) is considerably more entertaining than most of the little comedies about a suburban husband and wife who have grown bored with each other. When shy little Henry Smith (Howard Lindsay) suggests to Ellen Smith (Dorothy Gish) that they separate for a week, he hopes to encounter adventure. Instead he encounters a wench whose Junior League manners lead him to believe that, like the Smiths' governess and cook, she is a depression product, too good for her position. Ellen Smith encounters a pleasant Scotch...
Last week a mysterious telephone call reached a Sydney newspaper office. Reporters with lanterns, ropes and shovels piled into a car, dashed through the night the 500 miles to Melbourne. Trembling with excitement they reached the edge of a suburban city park, and following a hastily scrawled treasure map, began to dig. A shovel struck something hard. It was the Emden's bell...
Last week Philadelphians had poked under their proud noses the unwholesome fact that within 15 miles of City Hall was a suburban slum of almost medieval squalor. Its name was Sackville and it consisted of 60 rickety shacks squatting around a woolen mill. Sackville was settled 135 years ago and has stood still ever since. Its streets are unpaved. It has no running water, no sewers, no electricity. Almost every wage-earner among its 300 residents works in the mill. Last week the cry of "Anthrax!" prompted Rudolph H. Sack, owner of mill and town, to advise a general evacuation...
There is in Alexandria, as in Cambridge, a Harvard Street. For years this suburban street with all its New England connotations existed as a source of minor irritation to the mellow inhabitants of the Old South. Now Harry Burke, chairman of the Alexandria Park and Planning Commission, proposes to change the name to Monree Street, as he feels that "The teachings of Harvard University always have been alien to Virginia traditions," and he desires to honor the name of a famous Virginian. But Harvard is quickly defended by a surviving Barbara Frietchle, who in a letter of strong opposition...