Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...halls, in theatres, in real theatres where they have real plays. It is amazing that nobody has ever become excited about the sidewalks of Chicago, which last week were certainly the most excitable sidewalks in the world. They were more excitable, some said, than during last April's local elections in which the Thompson machine was broken and a laugh sent round the world...
...States chose Governors-Maine last September and 34 States last week. In every State, where a real contest existed, citizens awaited for gubernatorial results with less emotion than for presidential, but with scarcely less concern. For politicians, gubernatorial results were almost as important as presidential because of the local patronage at stake...
...wear painfully purple velvet costumes at their first "children's party." But so well did they play cricket that they lived down the velvets. Harold careered brilliantly at Cambridge (financed on his brother Jonathan's small inheritance) while his brother Jonathan worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold, a curt injunction that Jonathan continue as invaluable village doctor. His constant helpmeet was Rachel, dark-eyed beauty, but he kept reminding himself that calm brunettes were...
...wretched Recea switchman, who should have sidetracked the local-express to let the Orient pass, promptly took to the woods. So did the rest of the Recea station crew, after locking up their station. Seemingly they thought that when the hand of the Rumanian Justice fell it would be merciless, perhaps indiscriminate...
...party of Rumanian cadets had been on the local-express. They burst in the station door. One, a telegraphist, seized the Morse key, clicked frantic appeals for help. Within half an hour a wrecking train had steamed up. Meanwhile cadets worked mightily to extract wounded passengers from crumpled wooden cars, some of which had begun to burn...