Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anyone who knows how sensitive about such matters the true Bostonian is, how sincerely the readers of the Transcript feel such a blow, this item of news shadows the flight of Lindbergh, makes the flood a mere incident, and destroys the importance of Bozo's return to this hub of greater Boston. Small wonder that sleepless heads beat upon the blanched pillow of Beacon Hill; that hatred of Sacco and his partner in disaster faded as this news flashed. Many even forgot the fight to remove the Chevrolet sign from Park Square as they meditated upon the myth of Mary...
Tremont--Beatrice Lillie in "Oh, Please!"--8.15 o'clock--The Hub may look at a peerless peeress...
Although Boston may have claimed at one time or another to be the hub of shoes and ships and sealing wax, it has never--even when it boasted of an opora company--set itself up as the center of the theatrical world. It has, however, managed to remain respectable in the matter of dramatic entertainment and usually has afforded enough plays to satisfy any nicely adjusted histrionic digest on. Therefore the coming drought during which almost every legitimate theatre remains closed for a fortnight is not so much a Lenten penance as a sad testimonial to the decline...
...been held, healing a onetime particularly acrimonious census controversy which destroyed the good will of the original Twin Cities Good Will Club. Leaders from both cities last week claimed a combined present population of 900,000, predicted an eventual 2,000,000, pledged combined effort in developing the "Hub of the Great Northwest...
...York it is the collective skyscraper at the city's workaday hub that breeds more subways, less money for other needs, and more motor vehicles in the skyscrapers' service to kill more children in the children's only playground, the roadways between the sidewalks of New York...