Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Satan in the Suburbs" by Mr. Donaldson just misses the trick. With a novel situation, that of a chance meeting of a student and the Devil in a suburban trolley, the author wanders off in a pother of pseudo-Socratic dialectic, savoring of Shaw's "Man and Superman", and getting nowhere at all. And the fatal mark of the amateur is too often evident--that of needless circumlocution...
...entrants have been working for the past three weeks on a set of plans for a suburban apartment house. They are to be for both the interior, exterior, and surroundings, of this building. Imaginary specifications from which to work have been sent to the competitors...
...indication of the mores of the general public, then the U. S. must be full of married couples who are trying to decide whether occasional infidelities, particularly the husband's, affect what they refer to as their love. George Abbot and S. K. Lauren have written a suburban drama, in which the former appears, about a novelist who goes to a hotel with a discontented matron Awhile his wife is out of town. He is duly repentant and places no great significance on his sexual tangent. The wife is rather distraught and decides upon a separation, even though it means...
Into the lives of parents with school-age children has come a great convenience, the School Bus, which rolls through suburban streets or coughs along country ruts, collecting and depositing pupils at certain corners at certain hours. The dallying child who misses the morning Bus will have to walk to school, and schools are farther from home than they used to be. There's less chance for fighting, for getting dirty, for catching cold in the Bus than there was when children went by foot. But also, though the Bus driver is a man carefully chosen for steadiness...