Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past two days a large Packard touring car has been circulating about the outlying buildings of the University, snapping shots of students going to examinations and other items of local color, under the chaperonage of several members of the Student Council...
...Russdorff, the local Burgomaster made an avowed bid for election popularity by blazoning abroad that he had caused the town's open air swimming pool to be filled with water which would shortly freeze, to the delight of skater-voters...
...local priest, one Kosheliev, caused the suspected culprits to be immersed in a freezing stream for an hour, and then beaten into insensibility. This did not however constitute the "ordeal," which depended upon whether those being "tried" recovered consciousness during the night (innocent) or at dawn (guilty...
...single control! Such a faculty could be so maintained as no college could support; the greatest authors, artists, engineers, essayists and statesmen could write with authority on every question of importance, each of 500 papers getting the benefit of these great minds, while maintaining its individuality on purely local matters...
...star players from Leland Stanford, the University of California, Oregon Agricultural College, etc., defeated 6 to 0 the "All-Eastern Eleven," whose players hailed from West Point, the University of Michigan, Florida State, Pittsburgh, Drake, Iowa, Georgia Tech, etc. The proceeds of the fray went to the local Hospital for Crippled Children, and the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine were responsible for staging what proved to be a combined football game and babbitts' revel. To drum up publicity, one Hugh K. McKevitt, Illustrious Potentate, ardent Mystic Shriner, tossed a football from the 23rd floor...