Dairy cows were always the main business of the farm, milked daily in the big red barn to fill the cans that were hauled down the road to the train station in this shady courthouse town beside the Delaware River.
NICK PAUMGARTEN: Let's not forget Maryland, i.e. Baltimore, the best shady-deal town of them all, for Wire fans anyway.
Some independent companies operate in shady offices across town, others seem more respectable but still take time for you to reach their offices.
For a still larger casting, Menussi and Dan Sharp, the hairstylist, went to one of Cairo's biggest modeling agencies, on the seventh floor of a walk-up in a shady part of town.
As seen through the eyes of a young doctor studying under William Osler, a real-life pioneer in modern medicine, the anatomy room of the Blockley Dead House is the most exciting place in the city — until a more sophisticated student introduces him to the delights and dangers on the shady side of town.
Most mapping companies are pretty good at getting you from point A to point B. They usually optimize for the quickest or shortest route, but rarely take into account the risks of navigating the shady end of town.
You usually have to go to a shady part of town and deal with a bunch of fucking assholes," she said.
They get a lift or catch a bus to the shadier outskirts of town past the new car dealerships where row after row of shiny new cars sit gleaming in the late-summer sun.
That old glamour does remain in at least one shady crevice of the town.
Shady Hill, the commuter town that was a recurring setting in Mr. Cheever's work, was rife with sad and disaffected characters.
A calamitous trip to the airport includes detours through shady areas called Pidgin Town and Jackass Ridge, where even an encounter with a potential rapist is given a comic spin.
