Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just a nice clean, complete job, like a compulsory quadruple crossing of the Styx, it's enough to ensure most of the front page of the Hub City's news vending organizations. In fact we strongly suspect that the men in charge of make-up on the local journals aren't sufficiently shocked when one of their fellow leaves his earthly vessel. We think they sit around waiting for some one to go in a particularly violent, or novel manner and then start to work...
...there is one of those nebulous personalities known as a "Local Girl", as even "Local Man" involved in some slight way with the case, so much the better. Pictures of hem, with sad, proud smiles, hurrying down their stairs, into autos, on trains, etc., are rushed through engraving plants onto your breakfast table. Soon negro house boy suspects, stern but kindly judges, and lawyers will parade by. It's almost a relief to turn back a few more pages until we come to a placid, bovine girl, but one whom we know is good to her parents, labelled "Hard Working...
...fear that an enlargement would put Harvard in the dental business does not seem particularly valid. Most of the student body would never normally patronize a local dentist; they have their own dentists at home. But spending nine months of the year in Cambridge, they deserve care while they are here. These are the men, as well as needy students, for whom the Dental Clinic is a necessary part of the Hygiene Building...
Danny came to the dusty little Southwestern town of Vrain as a waif. A good-natured mechanic took him in, gave him a job. The local parson worried about Danny's education, but nothing was done about it till Professor W. Winston ("Dubya-Dubya") Burlington came to town on a forensic wave of Armistice Day patriotism, took Danny under his wing...
...CASE FOR THREE DETECTIVES-Leo Bruce-Stokes ($2). Three famed detectives solve a seemingly impossible murder but with three different results, and Sergeant Beef, of the local police, triumphs over Scotland Yard...