Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance and garb of inhabitants of far-off lands is given on a pack of 18th century French "educational" cards. The artist's conception of the American aborigine is a dusky savage dressed in skins with a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other. Local color is provided by a backdrop of a crocodile, representing American wild life...
...reads: ". . . neither shall it bee lawful for any to weare long haire, Locks or foretopps, nor . . . to use Curling, Crisping, parting or powdering their haire." It seems that the adoption of flowing coiffures by Harvard scholars had demoralized the citizenry to such an extent that even preachers in the local pulpits were affecting the fad, "to the great greife and offense of many godly hearts in the country...
Canal boosters, mostly from North Florida, pooh-poohed these figures. The City of Jacksonville hired a local firm of engineers named Hills & Youngberg to make another survey for a fee reported to be $30,000. Hills & Youngberg, as expected, brought in a report steaming with encouragement: such a canal was quite practical; it would cost only $100,000,000; it would easily pay for itself in practically no time at all; it would cut 400 treacherous sea miles from the distance between North-Atlantic ports and Gulf of Mexico ports...
With the convent room full of noise and confusion, nuns and the local priests were obliged at times to leave it to rest. But the bespectacled old German-born Capuchin never stopped exorcising. For protection Father Theophilus, by special permission, wore a pyx containing the Blessed Sacrament. "Horrible excrements, obviously preternatural in their volume and filth, were ejected by the possessed woman, as the devils' endeavored to hit the Blessed Sacrament (although they always missed It)." When the priest approached with a relic of the True Cross concealed under his cassock, there were howls: "I cannot bear that...
Contrary to reports published Saturday morning in local papers, President Conant has not asked Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09 to contribute to the 300th Anniversary Fund, thus re-opening the controversy over the Corporation's refusal of a $1000 travelling fellowship made by Hitler's aide in October 1934. Hanfstaengl allowed the news to leak out Friday night that he was written a letter to President Conant, and although University Hall denied all knowledge of the matter, it was thought that the letter would be laid on the President's desk today...