Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the book was published, John S. Sumner of Manhattan, professional moral crusader, had tried but failed to seize and suppress the printing plates. Local newspapers gave this episode routine mention, but most editors chose not to air the alleged love life of Warren Gamaliel Harding and the appeal based thereon. Henry Lewis Mencken touched on it in a distant, rambling article for the Baltimore Sun. The Democratic New York World treated it conventionally as biography, in a book review, with no front page headlines. The New Republic came closest to "featuring" the item. For the rest, there was what...
...street car conductor, one J. Ray Akers, was one of Juror Kidwell's audience. Conductor Akers had an idea that autos are not what jurors usually "get out of" criminal trials Conductor Akers timidly telephoned the local Hearst paper (the Washington Herald). Reporter Donald T. King went and heard Juror Kidwell hold forth at the soft-drink stand with conductor Akers for interlocutor. reporter king then told the us attorneys office what he had heard. that office forthwith took certain covert steps...
Last week 330 Conservative, 184 Labor, 130 Liberal, 104 Independent seats were contested in areas affecting 18,000,000 people who provide $250,000,000 annually in local taxes...
...Harvard Alumni Bulletin is an appreciation which the Boston Transcript reprints, of the work done by the ubiquitous and nebulous Student Vagabond. Rightly or wrongly, he is given credit for the spread of a new word in the local vocabulary, the verb to vagabond-meaning to attend lectures at which one's presence will not be noticed by the Dean's office, for the sole purpose of hearing what is said...
Replied Mayor Hoan (Socialist) of Milwaukee: ". . . We are too busy . . . making our local government worthy of respect to indulge in gallery play...