Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local laundry not long age had to deal with a married student who left in his pocket a love letter, not to his wife. He called sometime later, frantically begging the proprietor to find the billet doux before the clothes were delivered. Searching every suit in the shop, they found...
...Conducted for TIME, under the supervision of Elmo Roper, by local survey organizations in Britain, France, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy. U.S. military government authorities made available the results of a comparable survey in the U.S. Zone of Germany...
...local Communist press grew restive and menacing. Tyokansan Sanomat (News of the Working People) snarled that the opponents of the pact were "dirty intriguers who imagine that by trying to postpone a solution they can still discover a way to join the imperialistic war camp. . . . This rubbish element must be wiped out of history, at least in the next elections, if not earlier...
...Best. In the tight little community, such malicious letters set people to watching their neighbors with fear and suspicion. Mrs. Arthur Streatin, wife of a retired sea captain, got a letter asking if she knew that her daughters "kept open house" for local men. "I stayed home from church for months. After all, I wasn't sure whether the culprit was sitting in the next pew." The apparent basis for the letter to Mrs. Streatin was the fact that her daughters had given an innocent party for other villagers...
Should boys-even little boys-be taught by women? No, said Britain's National Association of Schoolmasters, whose members teach in local council and church schools. At Scarborough last week, the schoolmasters unanimously agreed that teaching was "man's work," and called for a law to abolish schoolmarms. Grumped Schoolmaster D. N. Thomas: "These avaricious hordes of women already have staked a claim in our field, and the sooner they are smoked out, the better it will be for the boys of this country...