Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church Cup competition with New York and Philadelphia. Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, Crimson No. 1 man, and M. T. Hill '30, No: 2, both scored triumphs over Quaker singles stars in three set matches to add the necessary points for a Boston win. The results gave the local squad the decision five matches to four...
...following campaign awards of $2,000 each will be given: for a national campaign of a specific product; for a local campaign for a specific product or merchandise; for a general or institutional campaign; and for a campaign of industrial products...
...cautious calculators, San Francisco's determined loudspeakers, Chicago's rooster-boosters. For a small city, Kansas City has extraordinary savoir-faire, and much more civility than many a larger place. Instead of permitting the G. O. P.'s reception to fall into the hands of local jobholders, a representative body of citizens got together last winter and made the plans. Flower-growing was encouraged this spring, to have the city in full bloom. A committee of 1,000 "hosts and hostesses" has been organized, to be stationed at the hotels in relays. Details so small as extra...
Kansas Citizens wrote to prospective visitors and warned that the local law makes it jail offense to possess one quart of intoxicant. They also warned against conventioneering bootleggers, whose stock-in-trade this year is murderously "cut" and atrociously priced. The alternative suggested was to trust to personal Kansas City hospitality, for corn abounds there and it was from corn that mellow bourbon whisky used to be made...
...gauche little play needed no such apologetic introduction. In it was unfolded the story of a favorite daughter of Idaho, who, after attending an Eastern college, returned to the potato dad hills of her native state, followed by her fiance. Local entanglements of politics and domesticity prevented her immediate marriage. She was compelled to wait while her two sisters ran away from their husbands, while her maiden aunt gave a despondent tirade upon the subject of celibacy and while her father was appointed, after much political turmoil, to the bench of the Supreme Court. In the meantime, she got herself...