Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nook in the huge library. The socially correct element is the remnant of that Boston society of the last century that "sneezed whenever England took cold," although nowadays it is difficult to distinguish between the imitation and the real. The studious element speaks Americanese, is not ashamed of its local accent, and goes serious and unobtrusively about its business of obtaining a higher education...
...Perhaps the most personal means of keeping in touch with Harvard is through the local Harvard Club, which every Harvard man should join as soon as he graduates. There are about 125 Harvard Clubs, which are members of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and there are doubtless others, which are not associated with the general body. Of the Associated Clubs, over 100 are in the United States, which means that there is a Harvard Club within reach of every Harvard man in the country. There are Harvard Clubs all over the world: Canada, South America, Mexico, Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan...
...Advocacy of a Federal Police Bureau to synchronize the work of local bureaus...
...George had succumbed to creditors and the Gambling Laws, but the Crown, onetime tavern, had turned into a thriving hotel; Belle, onetime wanton, into a good mother; Ernley, onetime lover, into a paunchy philanderer. As Daniel supported himself cleaning out the local Rector's pigsty, he felt that his past was coming back to choke him. Belle, outraged by her husband's unfaithfulness, conducted Daniel to a lodging house in Newhaven. He realized that it was anger that had made her surrender herself. She expected him, that night, to kill the last of her love for Ernley...
Chairman Sophie Irene Loeb, President of the Child Welfare Board, began the speechmaking, all of which bore upon uniform national laws concerning child protection and widows' pensions. Her point: Though many local groups agitate for the desired laws, no national body directs or helps these groups. That direction will be the task of the Child Welfare Committee...