Word: smalltowner
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...breezy, 37-year-old, best-selling author of Party Line, a story of smalltown small talk, has used crutches since she was eight, when she lost her right leg in a bicycle accident. To Louise Baker life on crutches is not funny, but it can be fun. She argues her case persuasively in a witty autobiography: Out on a Limb (Whittlesey House...
Besides, Ed Thye was a formidable vote-getter in his own right. Friendly, honest, an able administrator and an indefatigable campaigner in smalltown, door-to-door electioneering, he had piled up the biggest majority in Minnesota history when he ran for re-election to the Governor's chair in 1944. Purring with power, the Stassen machine coasted easily...
...parishes have been vigorously campaigning to throw out the oldtime Victorian anthems and Gospel hymns and substitute the works of the so-called "pure classicists" like Bach, Palestrina, Victoria and the modern imitators of their polyphonic styles. Most ministers and congregations are either indifferent or hostile to change. Volunteer smalltown choirs, unopposed by professionals, are still enthusiastically flatting their way through the complicated, sentimental standbys. And even in Manhattan-hotbed of the classicist movement-one of the two old hymns that Martensdale will sing will also be heard in 70% of the big city's churches this Easter...
...interference with their president became more than Texas' students could stand. President Rainey received a message from Regent Strickland to stop making so many speeches. Although the Regents promptly denied that they had made any such official request, the Daily Texan, campus newspaper, hit right back: "Instances of smalltown 'school boardism' . . . have been too many to overlook the report of a 'shut-up' rule to the president of the institution...
...excitable as are the people of many parts of France, and the wars of 1870 and 1914 had left them without the active hatred of the Germans that other Frenchmen felt. And so they went on with their cattle raising and farming and horse-racing and with their smalltown occupations. Although the resistance movement was not inactive, the majority of the people took as little part in it as they had in the political struggles between the two world wars...