Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover program: 1). A consolidation of inland waterways into one system, with no more "patchwork of disconnected local improvements [which] has in the past been the sink for hundreds of millions of public money...
...ginmill pick the customers' pockets but speak with horror of a friend of theirs caught smoking. They dislike Ulric because she is a half-caste trying to push her way "to white man's country, where Talu's white blood forever calls her." The local color weighing down Frozen Justice is interesting in the ginmill. Ulric's beautiful figure and husky voice go over well, but the situations are trite and the denouement in a frozen canyon fails to be tragic because it is not inevitable. Best shot: Ulric's singing "The Right Kind...
...tradesmen, locally patriotic, giving athletic bounties to local colleges, in one case, "out of impatience . . . with the meagre encouragement given to athletes at the local institution...
...hall who continuously shouted: 'Pour it on 'em, Al, pour it on 'em. . . .' When I spoke in Louisville the heat in the meeting hall was noticeable to everyone. We afterwards learned that somebody had deliberately turned on the steam heat. A member of the local police notified the newspapermen that I was intoxicated. . . . Half a dozen different stories were carried back to me and each time my supposed degree of intoxication was so great that it required two men to hold me up. ... To my way of thinking, neither the tariff nor the farm problem were...
...general to new men. The director is planning to make a trip later in the year through the Middle Atlantic States and the Middle West to do the same type of work. Here he will cooperate with the committees which have already been established in many of the local Harvard Clubs, and expects to establish similar connections...