Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific Time) a second shudder ran under California's coastal apron, from the winter & summer colony at Santa Barbara to the port of San Diego, 200 mi. south. The old Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building buckled, collapsed. Two warehouses fell apart. Into frenzied suburban streets slipped the walls of small apartment buildings, leaving rows of cheap bedrooms suddenly and immodestly bare. A housewife scrambled through her kitchen, fell over her cat, broke her kneecap. Panic-stricken motorists ran down pedestrians, ran into each other...
Possibly Torquemada is too real and lusty a term to apply to a society dominated by forces so complacent and so suburban. The nexus that binds these captious ladies with Saratoga and Bunker Hill has come to be a mere bloodless atavism. Probably the catholicity of vision required to realize that George Washington was, after all, a rebel, would be too much to ask of his spiritual daughters. But, at least, they might find innocuous content in polishing their guns and genealogies, and withdraw their febrile antiquarianism from the serious problems of politics and government...
Attorney General. Thomas James Walsh, 73, Senator from Montana, was more excited last week about taking a wife in Havana than about his seat in the Cabinet. Long a widower, he flew to Cuba where he was the guest of Ambassador Guggenheim. At her suburban villa before 30 witnesses he was married to Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, fiftyish, socialite widow of a wealthy Cuban sugar planter. Senator Walsh met his bride in New York two years ago, courted her mostly by mail. One of Mrs. Walsh's two stepdaughters is the wife of the Mayor of Havana...
Unscheduled was the sudden sputter and stopping of his engine. He slanted his biplane toward the ground looking for an open space, saw only the regimented houses of Chicago suburbs. With his hand frozen to the stick, he rode the wind into a suburban street, ripped into telephone wires, stripping the plane's wings. The fuselage dropped lightly to the ground. Pilot, notes and aerometeorograph were undamaged. Next dawn he was at work again above Chicago, since the Weather Bureau lets its airplane observation contracts on condition that pilots have two planes with instruments always ready...
...Headmaster Northrop brought with him in 1926. A fine athletic field was given in 1928 in memory of the late Kersey Coates Reed, but the school would have preferred cash or endowed chairs. Many Chicagoans (like Trustee Lester Armour) have moved to their country homes, put their children in suburban schools. Others have taken their children out of Chicago Latin School, put them in Eastern boarding schools (Headmaster Northrop has a son at Groton, a pretty daughter at Vassar...