Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sinecure, first established in 1351. Its traditional duties involve managing royal estates, making local appointments to the tune of a couple of hours a week. Former holders: Winton Churchill (1915), Sir Oswald Mosley...
...Miss Helen Mills of New York City last year found the local habit of "going around in fiannel shorts the most ridiculouse I've ever seen." Some, indeed, objected to the ivied tradition of even long finnels...
...Shake not thy hoary locks at me," was formerly the attitude of the College male stranded in a desert of secondary school spinsters for summer study. Revisions in this view, begun last summer by some daring local observers, should continue in force if early reports of female summer attendance can be credited...
True, the prewar species of pedagogical prude will insure peace of mind to local citizenry often uneasy at the prospect of women residing in the Yard. Even the introduction of a physical culture course for school marms can scarcely be expected to make Sargent girls out of secondary school teachers...
Whether an intimate glimpse of local masculinity will alter last year's verdicts is impossible to predict. There is a scathing opinion to be overcome...