Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroic city of Mons is known to smart Belgians as the seat of a somewhat narrow-minded and Mrs. Grundyish local aristocracy. Therefore when Swedish-born Crown Princess Astrid of Belgium visited Mons some weeks ago, she was believed to have committed a thoroughgoing faux pas by producing her small gold cigaret case, at the close of a Civic High Tea, and snapping her cosmopolitan lighter...
...heaviest attack he had yet suffered in his greatest campaign, voters had an opportunity to scrutinize the subject-matter of the controversy. Sample items of Assemblyman Smith's record of votes (1903-15) are as follows: Liquor A vote (1904) to except hotels from the provisions of a local option bill. A vote (1905) to except New York City from the places affected by a bill giving local option to districts where 40% of the voters might petition for it. Also, three votes against this whole bill at various stages of its passage. A vote (1906) against a bill...
...officer to keep the tickets, pass 'em around to his friends and "kiddies." The policeman, if not an imbecile, soon peddles the same tickets over again. Policemen being what they so often are, Manhattanites were not surprised last week to see the chief social body of the local force, the Police Glee Club, exposed as follows: For two concerts, in halls with a capacity of some 1,000 persons, 40,000 tickets were printed and sold, the bulk of them in night clubs, restaurants, speakeasies. Manhattan's policemen were not vastly surprised, either, to learn that the Police...
...named after its exploiter, Cecil John Rhodes). Between Elizabethville and Port Franc-qui (named after the rehabilitator of Belgium's currency, former Finance Minister Emile Francqui) lie the Katanga Mountains, rich in copper, and over them runs a 660 mile long railway which King & Queen proceeded to inaugurate. Local copper executives dolefully informed His Majesty that their Blackamoor miners have tribally combined to enforce a ruinous wage of 12? per day - the standard pay for such labor elsewhere in the Congo being...
...stores as your particular victims, you might work it out this way: Send Miss T - to New York or Chicago or Philadelphia, $300 in her pocketbook. Tell her to pick the name of some reputable citizen from the telephone book, then start an account in her name at a local bank, using the good check as a first deposit. This done, she could go shopping. For each article she buys, she gives a check, double the purchase price, asking for the balance in cash. Cautious department stores do not accept checks without investigation. Credit men telephone the bank, discover Miss...