Word: provinciale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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All deeply tangled in the net of one Madame de Hauteville, the Society for the Suppression of Vice in a provincial German town was about to be laughed out of existence by the delighted newspapers. Incited by one of the Society's members, the police had made a raid...
*The Lower House, made up of 100 members elected for a term of four years. The First Chamber consists of 60 members representing the "Provincial States," elected one-half every three years for a term of six years.
Presently the curtain rises again on the small lobby of the Commercial House in Herrington. The girl an ingenue, well played by Miss Mayo Methot, has been taken under the wing of the proprietress, while the quondam hobo who saved the former and has since fellen in love with her...
Professor Merriman, who has been teaching history at the University since 1902, is not a novice at teaching Frenchmen. In 1914 and 1915 he was the Harvard lecturer at the provincial universities of France. He was again absent from the University during the war, when he served as Captain in...
Your literary editor must be a "native New Yorker," born in Bohunk, Iowa, and "never been outside of New York in his life." He exhibits the provincial intolerance and superiority so often seen in the uncultured New York business man.