Word: town
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People who have visited the Hoovers in or out of the White House realize that Mrs. Hoover's "at-homeness" is not a commonplace quality. It is the product of wide education, travel, association with big-calibre people in many lands. A small-town publisher's wife and a small-town lawyer's wife have been succeeded by a cosmopolite's wife...
...hobble the strikers' leisure, Gastonia adopted an anti-parading ordinance. Last week some 90 strikers maneuvered about the town in mass formation, dodged the police, jeered. They were set upon by a dozen officers with clubs and bayonets. Two strikers, aged 15 and 16 were arrested, lodged in jail. Mrs. Callie Jones saw her young son in the melee, rushed to pull him forth, was arrested for profanity...
...Hello Towns! Editor Anderson has collected editorials and news stories from his two weeklies, pitched them together with a few running comments, and produced the book-a-year which his enterprising Manhattan publisher demands. Some of the news stories are less news than story and are the more pleasing to an articulate citizen of Marion: "As for town and county news, we have usually heard it at the post office or drug-store two or three days before the Marion Democrat comes out. That, of course, adds to interest in the Democrat, as everybody wants to see how the thing...
...backless gown. But satire is a rarity with Artist Rivera. Most of his work is a sympathetic tale told with figures that have the bare graphic form of Giotto and the incandescent coloring of the South. Now in his 40's, he was born in a mining town of Guanajuato. His middle-class parents gave him Spanish and Aztec blood. It is only the Aztec heritage that he prizes in himself and in his country. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Mexico, studying art at the Mexican National Academy where his early work showed the soft imitative convention...
...from Cape Town. Publisher Van Lear Black of the Baltimore Sun, gad-abouting over Africa and Europe, was forced down last month on the Italian Riviera. The strip of beach (near Bordighera) was too small for a takeoff. Last week he was still trying to load his ship on a barge to take it somewhere whence he can hop for England...