Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headlining the festivities will be Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Rita Rio, and Albert Ammons, who have been engaged to supply the musical part of the program. Eldridge, colored orchestra leader form Chicago's "three Deuces" will play his famous swing trumpet to the accompaniment of a local orchestra...
When Dr. Fishbein took the stand he boldly repeated to an eager audience of former Brinkley patients and local high-school students that Brinkley was a "quack." He defined the word as "a person who makes extravagant or blatant claims as to his own ability in the field of science or medicine," pointed out that Brinkley had never submitted a description of his rejuvenating operations or drugs to a recognized scientific publication, declared that A. M. A. chemists had found Brinkley's prize rejuvenation medicine to consist of water, a dye (methylene blue) and a little hydrochloric acid, none...
...that she was about to bestow something unusual on the world, and while not sure of the effects of prenatal influences, she did not wish to miss any bets. Mrs. McMath's premonitions were confirmed. As soon as she had given birth to her daughter, she visited a local photographer who made a portrait of mother and child. This turned out so well that an enlargement of it entitled Modern Madonna was hung in the Missouri State Building at Jefferson City...
...sister, Mary Logan Smith Costelloe, whom he later married. In Italy he found the land and the loveliness he had been looking for. He supported himself in Florence by taking tourists through art galleries at one lira per head, in mortal terror of being knifed by one of the local guides. In 1894 Berenson published Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, the first of four compact little books each of which furnished a Baedeker guide to principal masterworks and graceful, serious essays in handily numbered paragraphs on the artists of each great Italian school. To U. S. boarding school girls abroad...
Irving M. Clark '41, the man who first began gulping goldfish on a big-time scale, is considering returning to his goldfish wars again this summer as a result of an offer to tour the country as a circus freak and take on all local title claimants in one-night stands...