Word: town
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoy TIME immensely and I think you improve every week. But in the article on Mrs. Hoover in the last number, where you say, "The small-town lawyer's wife has been succeeded by the cosmopolite's wife," you seem to depreciate Mrs. Coolidge. When have we ever had a more gracious lady in the White House, or one more universally beloved throughout the land? I, too, admire Mrs. Hoover, but I never did like the cry, ''The King is dead! Long live the King...
...Western Air Express, having terminals in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City. and soon to establish a line Eastward to Kansas City, provide comfortable limousines for their passengers between the airports and the down town business districts. We also, incidentally, provide a luncheon for the passengers on the plane, all of which is without extra charge. I hope some day you will have the opportunity of riding on the "Model Airline of the World," operated by Western Air Express between San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...strikers were arrested at once and herded, shouting and cursing, into the Carter County Courthouse auditorium. The tiny jail was full. No sooner did law officers release some of the prisoners, than others were brought in. Elizabethton's 16-inch water conduit was dynamited three miles out of town. Schools closed. Trucks trundled to Johnson City, eleven miles away, for drinking water. Homes of strikers and strikebreakers were dynamited, barns burned...
...Windsor when the royal motorcade drove through High Street. Pinafored schoolchildren waved flags and screamed excitedly. The merry housewives of Windsor showered rose petals on King George's sober limousine. At the foot of Queen Victoria's statue stood the black-robed mayor and red-robed Town Councilors...
...secretary reading the while) and dressed himself in formal morning clothes. Like most male Cubans he detests woolen clothes. But this was a day of days-the 27th anniversary of the Republic's founding and his second Inaugural. There would be a gay time in the old town† that day and night...