Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens of France's bustling, southern city of Nimes (pop. 75,398) were every bit as proud of their local opera house as Belgium's aging ex-Prima Donna Eva Closset was of her protégé, José Faés. Nimes's playhouse, built in 1798, is billed as "the oldest theater of its kind" with no attempt to define its kind; Eva's protégé was her favorite nephew. The theater and José were brought together last June when Eva sent a circular letter to every opera manager...
...laga, Spain, visiting Cinemactress Rita Hay worth checked into the luxurious Hotel Miramar, which was soon fined $5 by the local authorities. Reason: the clerk had failed to have Rita write her age (34) in the register...
...built Loomis School into a distinguished institution," and Frank L. Boyden, who, "with his love for horses and antiques, his Yankee shrewdness, his aversion for public speaking, his passion for telephoning and automobiling, his unaffected simplicity combined with benevolent despotism," built Deerfield Academy (enrollment: 470) out of a tiny local school with only 14 students...
...crannogs were inhabited at three separate times: by New Stone Age men around 2500 B.C., by Late Bronze Age men 2,000 years afterwards, and by a settlement of early Christians. Perhaps a sudden rise in the water level wiped out the first settlement. Perhaps a change in local conditions made the island dwellings with their connecting zigzag causeways unneccessary as refuges...
Most of Hatlo's crowded scenes are in an office or living room, but he is equally at home in the kitchen, ballpark or local hospital, where the best-looking nurses are always taking care of the patient with the bandage over his eyes. Hatlo has no trouble getting ideas; his readers send him 200 suggestions a week...