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...MCEVILLEY Norwood, Ohio...
...Norwood is a town of 38,000 entirely surrounded by Cincinnati...
Last week, after a six months' survey of Hawaii's language problem, a visitor from the mainland, Wabash College's Professor W. Norwood Brigance, warned the territory of the penalties of pidgin. Said he: "If the standard speech [continues to be] pidgin English, Hawaii will never fully become a cultural part of the U.S. Politically it may become the 49th state, but its people . . . will be held in contempt...
Back in 1867 the famous preacher Henry Ward Beecher wrote a novel, his only one, Norwood; or Village Life in New England, which was serialized in the New York Ledger, and for which he received the then fabulous sum of $25,000. One of the minor characters was a mischievous boy from Hardscrabble, the poor down-at-the-heels farming suburb of Norwood...
...Gruening took time out to marry Dorothy Elizabeth Smith of Norwood, Mass. Of their three sons one, Ernest, is dead...