Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain. Jose Viloria, Madrid streetcar conductor, on a Sunday jaunt to suburban Moncloa, kicked about in a dirt pile on the site of a new university, found a bone, an old dirty pot. When he showed the pot and bone to university authorities, they enthusiastically called a meeting of the board of directors, engaged Professor Hugo Obermaier, archeologist of Central University, to dig more pots. On the streetcar conductor's Sunday picnic site were found coins, wooden kitchen utensils, old pottery, stone knives, a granite grinding mill, skeletons of bulls, goats, birds. Professor Obermaier reported the discoveries...
Buenos Aires was Bedlam. But steadily, methodically, hour after hour General Uriburu was bringing fresh troops from suburban garrisons into the Capital. With masterly skill he organized calm, drove the Irigoyenist shotgun-toters off the streets, proved that counter revolution worthy of the name had never existed, made himself highly popular with men of property...
...mind, the best solution or prescription for living conditions which we face in this age. It is too much to expect, in the rush and hurried life of today and the preoccupation which is attendant upon that life, that the bulk of the people who live in suburban communities will go home to dress after a busy day in New York and return again in the evening to attend concerts and operas and then rush off to make the last train home...
...recreation centre at White Plains, N. Y. on two Tuesday evenings next December. The projected move, direct fruit of Chairman Kahn's attendance at the centre's dedication in May, may result in a regular Westchester season. It was intimated that other suburban communities might be served by the Metropolitan when and if they become financially capable, theatrically equipped...
Rarely does a magazine cartoonist undertake the routine of drawing comic strips for newspapers. Outstanding of the new artists who have succeeded as comic strippers are Percy Crosby ("Skippy") and Gluyas Williams ("Suburban Heights" et al.). Artists whose newspaper comics have fallen short of their magazine popularity include John Held, Jr. ("Margy"), Ellison Hoover ("Outlines of Oscar"), Jefferson Machamer ("Petting Patty...