Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan last week celebrated by electing to its city council, its first alderwoman. She is not the widow of a politician. Instead she is a local political leader, the wife of a financier, the mother of five children, and a society woman. Her husband is John T. Pratt, Amherst '96, son of Charles Pratt who was one of the Standard Oil men; he is a lawyer, the director of a few railroads, and rates himself as a financier...
...torches originally intended for use in the local political rallies of early November will furnish the illumination for the football mass meeting of the Freshman class in Smith Halls quadrangle at 7.15 o'clock tonight...
...probably be shot through with the Klan issue. All the wiser for this set-back, the Klan will be even more skilful in the future; and the country will do well to keep the example of Facismo in mind, with all its attendant phenomena of press censorship, interference with local authority, and rule by a bigoted and militant minority...
...fault, is pivot; and Mr. Berton Churchill acts his sanctimonious role to perfection, while with nimble wit and deft fingers he wins himself, the girl, the hobo, and the proprietress out of dangerous holes. Then there are the villains, well drawn, better acted, and best cast, and the local characters highly indigenous and the comic prize fighter, "Bull" Moran, et altera. Young Jerry Devine, as the hero and heroine idolater and the son of the coquettish proprietress, is, however, one of the chief stars. His juvenile acting is absolutely genuine and has much charm withal. And with these bouquets distributed...
...Thursday morning the CRIMSON will perpetrate another radical innovation in college journalism when it will turn over its weekly Crime Column to a group of militant Radcliffe maids who are eager to clear themselves of certain slurs cast upon them by the ill-mannered editors of a wretched little local publication known as the Lampoon...