Word: smalltowner
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When rightwing organizations mounted a counter campaign and 1,000 protesting letters rolled in from smalltown businessmen, the sponsors nervously softened their proposal by writing into it their disapproval of granting long-term credits to the Communists. As it turned out, they overestimated the opposition. Only one Chamber chapter (from White Plains, N.Y.) voted against the proposal, and a group of leaders-including Edwin Neilan-wanted to go even farther by specifically endorsing trade with Red China...
...immensely profitable businesses. One lucrative example is the Macy chain in New York State's Westchester and Rockland Counties, where the nine Macy papers have been making large profits for 40 years. Last week this highly successful suburban group was sold to an even more profitable smalltown chain...
...manners and mores that in its self-contained coherence suggests the world of Henry James. O'Hara has an idiomatic acquaintance with far more people on far more different levels of society than James ever did-chauffeurs, part-time ladies' maids, broken-down movie directors, cops, smalltown bankers, and so on. But like James, he is a snob and a firm believer that a man's life can best be mirrored in social surfaces. James's rich Americans are dazzled by Europe but never really escape America; O'Hara's favorite characters, however upwardly...
Elizabeth Appleton, by John O'Hara. Transplanting a Southampton belle to the groves of Academe, America's poet laureate of provincial mores appraises smalltown college life for the first time and proposes that even the simplest marriage is really complicated...
Louisville gave Cassius a welcoming parade that "crippled the town." He bought a "rosy pink" hardtop Cadillac on time. And he signed to fight his first professional bout-a six-rounder with a former smalltown West Virginia police chief named Tunney Hunsaker. "He's a bum," confided Cassius. "I'll lick him easy." But he still got up at 5 a.m. every day to run at least two miles in Chickasaw Park, and he boxed a few fast training rounds with his younger brother Rudolph...