Word: town
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people still think of Cambridge as a college town, over which Harvard spreads a dominating influence. Boston, moreover, and the countless suburban districts are conveniently within immediate reach. It is no longer incumbent upon the University, therefore, to provide for social activities, which must necessarily have severe competition...
...Temple, and shortly afterward quit furs and bought a penny arcade in Manhattan. Later, when he had shown a profit running "Hale's Tours," one of William A. Brady's projects, he went home to Ricse for a visit and was received by the Mayor and the Town Council...
...gutters from Frisco to Bombay, Melbourne to Cape Town, the Salvation Army was on the job, inviting harassed and stricken souls to the peace which passeth understanding, doling alms. Some were saved and some scoffed; but neither gave three thoughts to a lonely old man in an isolated cottage in Southwold, Suffolk, who spent last week some harassed, stricken nights. He was General William Bramwell Booth, commander of the Salvation Army.* He was afraid of his sister, Commander Evangeline Booth of the Army in America...
Born in Kansas City, Tex Rickard was a Texas cowpuncher at 10, a town marshal at 23. Then he went goldward to Alaska, ran dance-halls, saloons, gaming-tables, dug ore with Novelist Rex Beach. In 1906, gambler of Goldfield, Nev., he ballyhooed the town by promoting his first prizefight (Joe Gans v. Battling Nelson). In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he sat at a 2-ton bronze desk, dispersed bills to knowing panhandlers as he passed out of the building. He brought dress suits, decollete gowns to the ringside, was dined by 500 tycoons (Schwab, Baruch, Ringling, Chrysler, Mackay...
...little town in old New Jersey, lived a man whose name was Doctor Hall...