Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early autumn with frost in the air-just before the shooting season opens-is a busy time at Dakin's sporting goods and hardware store on Central Street in the quiet little city of Bangor, Me. Proprietor Everett ("Shep") Hurd would not have been at all surprised one day last month when three undersized young men bought two .45 Colt automatics and a generous supply of ammunition, except for one fact...
...painter though critics filled their reviews of his one-man show of landscapes last spring in Chicago's Palmer House with awed quotations from his rugged views on Art ("Art and football are very much alike"). More important to Robert Zuppke and a majority of the inhabitants of central Illinois is the fact that in the last 24 years Illinois teams have won twice as many football games as they have lost...
...Central character of the novel is Napoleon. Heroine is his Polish mistress, 20-year-old, blonde, serious-minded Marie Walewska. By rubberizing history, pseudonymous English Author Pilgrim contrives a cinematic tale based on the ten months which marked the height of Napoleon's career, the beginning of his skid toward Waterloo as a result of his Spanish campaign...
...satisfaction about the football situation--what, as we have said with all these mingled elements the lights of Gotham presented a somewhat unfamiliar picture. We managed to get around a couple of the rotaries and then after a few moments of blind flying found ourselves inexplicably and inextricably in Central Park. A friendly soul had told us that the third right would bring us out but the third right seemed to be mainly sidewalk and the fourth right was distinctly a stone wall...
...through Central Square. Danny Cheever's voice carries to the back of the bus, "Who's this guy Reidy?" Crowther says something to Bill Coleman. Torbert MacDonald says something to Ryan. Ryan observes how both Timmy Russell and Bob Stuart are making the trip. Through the back window. The other bus has disappeared...