Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When not mayoring in the village, Jammy Schmidt serves as clerk of the Chamber of Deputies in Paris. To honor the wedding, local hunters formed a shotgun guard of honor, blazed away with both barrels as the happy couple left the town hall. The rest of the day they spent throwing percussion caps under the legs of terrified horses and cows, drinking free toasts...
...sentimentality of Abie's Irish Rose, or of Lightnin' (1,291 performances). It is physically and verbally as dirty as any play U. S. playgoers have seen. In 13 cities, from Albuquerque, N. Mex. to Boston, Mass., its producers have had to pay lawyers to fight local censorship. In Chicago, where a brief filed in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the play "a garbage pail of indecent dialogue and degenerate exhibitionism," legal defense cost nearly $75,000. As advertising it was cheap...
...herbarium, as follows: 249 ferns of Cuba: 118 plants of Colombia; 24 rare species secured on Arctic expeditions; 459 plants of Del Norte Country, California; three isotypes of new srectes; 237 plants of Hawaii; 42 rare plants of Indiana; 30 plants of Costa Rica; 1761 plants from Brazil; 45 local or critical plants of California; 99 plants illustrating critical Flora of the Aleutian Islands; 292 plants of Jamaica and the southern United States; 3087 critical herbaceous plants, chiefly of South America and Mexico; 13 plants newly discovered in Maine; a most important series of 2609 plants of eastern arctic Canada...
Without the services of Captain F. Skiddy von Stade, six goal ace who had been playing in South America during the fall, the polo team clashes with the Ramblers, local Class A outfit, in the season's opener at the Commonwealth Armory tonight...
...meeting of 21 local delegates to the American Student Union convention at Vassar was called for Sunday...