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Word: suburban (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope Pius XI should suddenly begin to spend his summers in a high, cool, suburban palace instead of in the low, stuffy Vatican how would most Catholics react...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Blowout & Crash | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...childless husband decides that a baby would be acceptable. Animating this dummy are four of Manhattan's most capable actors: for the childless husband & wife, Ernest Truex and Linda Watkins; for the fertile husband & wife, Glenn Anders and Ruth Weston. Truex's quick, frozen smile and suburban fussiness, Anders' handwringing and close attention to business, Miss Watkins' gentle hysterics, actually produce an evening's entertainment. Manhattan audiences blushed for as much as at such lines as (Anders): "What has happened to our love? I've become just a biological accomplice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 4, 1933 | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

Thundering like a mountain on the move, the wall of water surged through Parker, tumbled down Cherry Creek toward suburban Denver. Logs, tree-trunks, tons of debris were swept along as the billion-gallon deluge widened out to more than a mile. Cherry Creek was a battering-ram of water, boiling over its embankments. At 7 o'clock it burst into Denver, ripped out six bridges in swift succession. Just ahead of it were police cars and fire engines, sirens a-scream, racing the residents to safety. A stampede of 5,000, many clad in night clothes, fled from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Denver's Dam | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

...bank loans from Manhattan and R. F. C. replaced closed First National and Guardian with two new banks. That plan failed because Manhattan refused to do its part. Last week's plan was less ambitious. Edsel Ford and associates raised capital with which to merge four suburban banks (Highland Park State Bank, Peoples Wayne County Bank, Guardian Bank of Dearborn, Dearborn State Bank). The R. F. C. agreed to lend $17,000,000 on the assets of the four banks, also to lend $25,000,000 on the assets of the big Guardian bank permitting payment to its depositors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford Bank | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...over his grand-children-"Sistie" & "Buzzie" Dall and Sara Roosevelt-at Little Boars Head and Rye Beach, N. H. when an unparalleled "wave" of abductions, three major kidnappings and half a dozen attempted ones, burst violently into the news last week. Swindler. Three weeks ago at "The Dells," a suburban roadhouse northwest of Chicago celebrated for good orchestras and bad customers, John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, his shapely second wife and Son Jerome, 19, were entertaining a party of friends. "The Dells" is about three miles from the Evanston line on a wide and main-traveled concrete road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Substitute for Beer | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

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