Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local phases of interest are expressed in the special White House reception for Bay Staters, and the extreme difficulty of procuring tickets...
...doubtful if America will float in similar endless flocks to the local production. The gorgeousness of the story has not been sufficiently reduced to a swiftly rising narrative. Through the opening reels, the characters are confused. Too many dukes and knights in armor and around the chess board are inclined to irritate your U. S. gum-chewer...
Next day, the General mounted an other rostrum with the local bishop, was cheered by devotees, was hailed by the bishop: "Hero of the Church...
...crazed by smoke, beats wife and evicts children from home," and "Smith, arrested on a charge of giving a cigarette to his twenty year old son breaks down, confesses he got the idea from movies." Little six year old Annie will stumble through the blue haze that fills the local blind tiger, and, her eyes streaming with tears, murmur pathetically "I've come to take Daddy home...
...When I was in Berlin in 1923 I visited the grounds of the huge museum which is now under construction, and was told that one entire ward of the building will be devoted to plaster reproductions of architectural and sculptural subjects in the style of those in our local museum...