Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done his part by the South in "Stars Fell on Alabama", an engaging potpourri of myths, sketches, and experiences of Alabama, he turns to his native state in the present instance in a somewhat confused and confusing piece of copy that is part rationale, part travelog, part apology, part local-color journalism, but which holds the reader's interest throughout...
...country, and through the Bristol Hills. It follows an aimless route in the Rochester-Geneseo-Buffalo area, through to the Binghamton-Ithaca "Storm Country", "Down the Bear Path Road" of Central New York, up North to the Adirondacks, "Land of Frozen Flame." Hit and miss Mr. Carmer picks up local anecdotes, Indian superstitions, regional customs, scenic wonders, as he goes. It is a peculiar system of newsgathering he uses, here depending on what he sees and knows, here taking in the stories of rural raconteurs, rarely bothering with actual substantiation of what he says--now poeticizing the life of degenerate...
Pianist Casadesus grimly returned. The audience roared with applause. He sat down, tore through Chopin and Ravel, wrestled till the last encore with the relief piano, which, propped up on a roller frame, struggled to roll out of his reach. Local critics were sure that St. Louis would never forget Casadesus, that Casadesus would never forget St. Louis...
Found at a local Negro theatre enjoying the cinema Down the Stretch, the team announced that they would not go back to work without better food and more financial consideration. Some of them said they had been training on wieners. Howard's students marched out of their classrooms on a sympathy strike. Thereupon Howard canceled the annual Big Game of Negro football, Howard v. Lincoln University (Chester Co., Pa.), scheduled to be played in Washington on Thanksgiving...
...insurance company pay. Drivers with stricter codes of behavior have often been saddled by suits from erstwhile friends. Publicized more than most such cases be cause of the prominence of its participants, the final decision in the McCann-Hoffman suit last week illuminated the status and trend of local laws governing "guest claims...