Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Topeka, Candidate Reed reverted to Lawyer Reed when local lawyers told him how "thrilled" they had been by the $100,000 fee he was reported to have gotten for defending Henry Ford in the Sapiro libel case. "All I want to say about that case," replied Lawyer Reed, "is that, whatever the amount of that fee, it was not big enough to pay me for a client lying down after I had won my case...
...badly done potato pancake, the old horned toad that lugubriously blinked in the Eastland, Tex., drugstore window last week proved all the lies that Texans had ever told of Nature's antics in their state. The reptile had lived for 31 years in the sealed hollow of the local courthouse cornerstone. So averred honest men who had just dug it out, and one remembered having planned to put a horned toad in the stone at its laying 31 years ago. The idea then, and even now, in Texas is that a horned toad can live 100 years without food...
...Harvard indoor polo team will seek tonight to repeat its victory of ten days ago over the Yale riders when the two rivals meet in the Commonwealth Armory this evening. The game, which marks the peak of the local indoor polo season, is scheduled to begin at 7.30 o'clock, and the six chukkers will be hustled through as rapidly as possible, so that the event will not conflict with the hockey game later in the evening...
Lobbyists had pressed special claims. Businessmen had pictured the Basin's real financial extremity. Politicians had embarked on the flood for a joyride, and the bill at last said: "$473,000,000 for federal flood-control, without local contribution...
Though simple, the last rites of Lord Oxford were no more austere than those of the late Earl Haig (TIME, Feb. 13). Haig was borne to final rest in Dryburgh Abbey, Scotland, on a farm cart, attended chiefly by local Scottish friends of small renown...