Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next appearance was at Old Fort, N. C., where it looked as though Candidate Smith might make a speech. But George W. Sandlin, the local orator, got into action first, with a historical sketch of Old Fort. Then a conductor called "All aboard...
...instead of the $1,500,000,000 that had been talked about. Also, flood-work contracts would be controlled by the President and the Secretary of War; also, the States benefited would actually contribute some $10,000,000 in rights-of-way, to demonstrate the principle of local contribution...
...extenuation of a legend, Clarence De Mar, the aged printer, chased by a number of Scandinavians, an up Exeter Street yesterday afternoon to better his previous records in the Boston Marathon by eight seconds. Outdistanced by not outsung by the extensive corn cure conducted by promoter Pyle, this local run has swelled recently and rapidly of an institution, and is one of the few from an endurance stunt to the dignity Boston institutions to escape the obloquy of the enlightened. And if, eight seconds in this instance seems as short as the twenty six miles seem long, they gain added...
...course, the Americana hunters who make their own gentility dubious by an inordinant desire to assert the vulgarity of mob pleasures, can and do challenge the intelligence of endurance contests. The rival show, put on by local patriots, which sent Dawes and Revere over their courses again, was much better costumed and much less attended. It is admitted that a man might be as dull as the Man Who Knew Coolidge, and still run a good Marathon. But ad these indictments carefully weighed still present no valid reason why a person should not stroll across Boston Common at the first...
Among the songs that the local club will sing in the coming entertainments are the following...