Word: smalltowner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deputy sheriff and the smalltown reporter elected to stay in the boat. With Wise carrying the submachine gun and Chesley a pistol (to signal the boat) they plunged into the willow tangles...
...Austin were physicians. Brother Austin, eight years Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame University, gained fame as a scientist and oculist. Also he was a Latin scholar, conducted voluminous correspondence with Popes Leo XIII and Benedict XV. Brother William was a naval captain. Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell down a shaft and was killed...
...Oliver, central figure of Beyond Desire, only son of a smalltown Southern doctor, was an ordinary young fellow with ordinary longings: to have a woman, to amount to something. Though it is impossible to piece together, from Author Anderson's meandering and sometimes subterranean narrative, the complete career of Hero Red. he apparently went to college for a while and was a good baseball player. Then he started to work in a mill in his home town, wished he had nerve enough lo get himself a girl. His only affair, too brief and onesided to be at all satisfactory...
Vice President Curtis was conducting the same sort of smalltown, one-ring-circus tour as four years ago. As in 1928 he floored his audiences with oratorical extravagances, staggered them with tariff statistics, lost his temper when heckled. He had one standard speech for delivery everywhere. Excerpt: "After every great war hard times have followed. We have gone through many such periods, but our people have always come out and gone forward until today our nation is the leading nation of the world." Alone on the stump, the Vice President travelled from town to town in an ordinary Pullman instead...
...Better to brush up the translation of the Memoirs than do another biography. Publisher Knopf agreed and now comes a noteworthy book with omissions and distortions of the original carefully corrected.- The facts of Berlioz' early life go far toward making his accomplishments remarkable. His father was a smalltown doctor in the hilly South of France. Son Hector was allowed to toy with the flute, the flageolet, the guitar, but medicine was to be his profession. He had no sound musical grounding. Not until he was sent to Paris, set to dissecting corpses did he rebel...