Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West'chester County bedroom for Manhattan, suburban Scarsdale (pop. 14,500) is fiercely jealous of its upper-middlebrow status. Its streets curve and are often called lanes; it scorns the row house. Even the ugliest of its houses have what real-estate agents like to call "character...
That did it. The Socialists scorned the royal word. The Liberals split bitterly over the issue, while the pro-Leopoldist Christian Socialists (Catholics) sneered at them as "suburban Machiavellians." The Liberals angrily retorted that the Catholics' Premier-designate Paul van Zeeland was the real Machiavellian-he had meddled with Liberal solidarity. "We are ready to eat the pie," said Liberal Leader Roger Motz, "if it is prepared by a different pastry cook...
...find a way to reach the new Seattle citizens, Rex Allison in 1946 ordered an aerial photographic map of the entire north end. He pored over the map with pencil and compass, soon found that a suburban branch located just outside the city limits would be within twelve minutes' driving time of 275,000 people who spend $500 million every year. Allison sold the idea to Allied Stores Corp. (owner of Bon Marche), then persuaded the Equitable Life Assurance Society to buy $6,000,000 worth of mortgages to help finance a super shopping center...
...Disengaged" is a typical Victorian period piece. The main action takes place in a suburban home outside of London. Here a group of scheming characters seek to force a military here, Captain Prime, into marrying Blandina Wigmore, a dull girl who is being pushed forward by her mother. Unfortunately, the captain is much more interested in sensuous Mrs. Jasper, a beautiful young widow...
...black sedan, flags flying, pulled up nearby and two young Koreans with beanies popped out and bounded up the steps of a neat suburban home. Sweeping off their caps, the boys politely commandeered the water supply, and while the residents uneasily tried to be helpful, the Korans dashd out, each with a glass of water...