Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their pockets he bought a steerage ticket for England and slipped away to look for cannibals. Eventually he reached Johannesburg, spent several years grubbing for his board & bed. Finally he hit upon the bright idea of selling land on the installment plan, formed African Realty Trust, Ltd., sold suburban sites which later became parts of cities. To get the sites occupied he imported portable houses, opened a mortgage & loan office. To get his tenants to their homes he started a bus line. That paid too. Everything paid. He bought more land, planted it with fruits, sold it, collected from...
...feared that his brother would "make trouble"; the lawyer's wife, who said that Charlotte Fixel, writing to her in 1920 had stated that she had been married to Mr. Erlanger; five employes of an Atlantic City hotel; an actress; three waiters; a doorman; the proprietor of a suburban inn; a Pullman porter; a hairdresser; a former valet; various tradesmen; a room clerk in Manhattan's smart Ambassador Hotel...
...blindfolded in a dirty farmhouse, while they fiddled with a radio, learned that they had to reckon with Missouri's mightiest, most belligerent, most implacable man. Without further attempt to collect ransom they hastily bundled Mrs. Donnelly and the chauffeur into an automobile, turned them loose on a suburban road where police found them...
Investigation revealed what published accounts had not: that one lady had asked the Employment Office for the names of six lonely men who might like to attend the annual Prom at a small suburban school. There were no conditions attached to the invitation. No pay was offered. Harvard evinced no great enthusiasm...
...cinema, Crome has returned to his first wife, is preparing to remarry her. Cinemactress Dove wears becoming clothes and acts so much better than her leading man that her performance, first in a year, seems more brilliant than it is. One excellent sequence at the beginning-a suburban dinner party at which the host (Adrian Morris) bullies his wife by patronizing her-is true enough (to put the rest of the picture out of focus...