Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astounded as the friends of Harry Gold had been only two weeks before. Slack, a big, rugged-looking man, had been known as a solid citizen, who worked hard to support his wife and two children, a provider who had licked the housing shortage by building his family a suburban cottage with his own hands...
...Like This ... In New Orleans, cops found Lawrence Dorsey sitting in a parked automobile behind a suburban bank, locked him up despite his protestations that one of his two loaded pistols was a war souvenir and he just didn't know where the other one had come from...
Last week, after nearly a month of search, the police received a phone call from Dried Meat. "This is a warning," he said. "I'm coming." Nervous authorities thought he might come shooting. Instead, a pale figure in checkered black & white sport coat, he walked up to a suburban policeman, meekly surrendered himself...
...haughty caterer (Leo G. Carroll) sniffs through Tracy's suburban home, orders it thoroughly revamped for the reception. Tracy's 20-year-old cutaway splits a seam. A lovers' quarrel threatens briefly to end the whole show. The wedding rehearsal turns into bedlam. Then comes the ceremony itself and the ultimate chaos-the reception. Tossed about in a maelstrom of thirsty guests and burdened with such undignified chores as untangling traffic jams out front, Tracy cannot find his daughter to say goodbye before she rushes off on her honeymoon. Finally he is alone and at peace with...
When genial, whirlwind Managing Editor Lloyd Downs Lewis emptied out his desk at the Chicago Daily News one day in 1945 and said goodbye to his staff, he was headed for no slippered retirement. Instead he went off to his home in suburban Libertyville, Ill. to get busy on the biggest story of his career: the life of General Ulysses S. Grant...