Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public ate it all up. She slithered her way through 40 carbon-copy roles in the next five years, upped her salary from $150 to $4,000 a week, retired in 1921 to marry Director Charles Brabin and live the quiet life of a well-fed, well-to-do suburban matron...
Although it will make his job of coordination more difficult, Buck will probably follow this suburban approach, encouraging decentralization, but combining small' overlapping collections. Widener must, still find space in the stacks, however, for 20,000 new books each year. At this rate it will be full by 1975. With the removal of the University Archives and departmental collections, it can perhaps last until...
Seattle newspapers ran headlines when gentlemanly John Stenhouse, chairman of the suburban Mercer Island school board, last month told a congressional hearing that had summoned him as a witness: "I was a member of the Communist Party." For two painful hours Stenhouse, 47, related the story of his past. The son of a British trader, he had worked at the family business in China until the war, then fled with his American-born wife to Los Angeles, where he tried to sell Chinese antiques. When his business failed, he became a machinist, got into war production-and into bad company...
Armstrong Circle Theater offered a grim little farce called TV or Net TV. The plot line: when a group of suburban husbands feel abused because their wives and children neglect them to watch television, they cunningly arrange to botch the TV reception; but a few nights of listening to the incessant yammering of their TV-free families drive them to restore the status quo. Somewhere in this vicious circle the televiewer himself may well have felt tempted to risk the full fury of a family on the loose in preference to the typically bad TV farce represented...
...source will relieve the deficit between anticipated expenses and the financial backing already received. The Ford Foundation's fund for the Advancement of education has contributed $150,000 for the experiment and the suburban Boston public schools involved have agreed to pay the trainees $1,350 a semester for their services...