Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinners began to pour in. She was equally indifferent to the snubs and the flattery. The Executive Mansion was filled with her friends of Oliver street days and she had neither time nor inclination to cultivate a new circle of acquaintances. Al himself delivered one sharp rebuke to a local social leader who tried to climb on the bandwagon, but Katie simply didn't care. She had what she wanted...
...strap New Jersey to Pennsylvania. Then up through the cliff-hugged Lehigh Valley they climb, where trees remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet of "Black Diamond." At Mauch Chunk the main...
...time there has been no chance in America to see such things except in the comparatively monotonous form in which they are set out by the few museums which posess them. Mr. Charles Baine Hoyt's loan collection, just opened at the Fogg Museum, is therefore of more than local interest. Three rooms have been devoted to a pleasantly sparse distribution of potteries and paintings where even the laymen must see at once that he moves among aristocrats. Ever since it opened last Fall the Fogg has given us interesting arrangements, but this time, from the heaped pomegranates...
...Thursday, May 17, there will be a business meeting and luncheon for the Schools of Law, Architecture, Arts and Sciences, and Business. The luncheon will be followed by specially arranged excursions to local centers of the professions, and businesses which represent these schools. In the evening there will be a banquet, President Lowell being among the speakers...
...magnitude of the political catastrophe resulting from the standardization of the press may be overdrawn, there is another more optimistic view of the situation. The general level of a universal standard for the national press would be kept higher by pressure of public opinion than the plane where much local journalism stands today. It is inconceivable that the tabloid sensationalism that washes down so many breakfasts now, or the pink and purple extravaganzas of Mr. Hearst should ever set the style for a nationwide press such as Mr. Villard imagines. If amalgamation will gloss over with a coat of standardized...