Word: townely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mass, tavern, beefy Bundster Fritz Kuhn (already under indictment charged with filching Bund funds) had words with a policeman, who promptly tossed him into jail. Next morning Police Chief John Templeman released him on $54 bail, snapped: "He was just another wise guy who thought this was a hick town and he could stage one of them beer hall putsch things and be the dictator...
...Chronicle still has the smallest circulation in San Francisco (104,893), carries the largest staff (wags say that at fires there are more Chronicle reporters than firemen). Hearst's Examiner still dominates the morning field with a circulation of 163,003 built on the best local coverage in town. Of the afternoon papers, Hearst's Call-Bulletin is a shrill screamer, the Scripps-Howard News a tired liberal. If Paul Smith can put over the city's only home-owned newspaper as a liberal, world-conscious sheet, he may make...
Tale of a Lexington, Mass, pair of yokels whose romance is interrupted when a movie company invades the town and carries the girl to Hollywood, the show tells how Boy Beats Girl in an extra-inning moving-pitchers' duel...
Plump Adah Isaacs Menken, whose strip-tease opera, Mazeppa, had the town on its ear, wrote daring poems in the tradition of her good friend Walt Whitman. Henry George, tiny, tenacious, hopeful ex-sailor-prospector-typesetter and future author of Progress and Poverty, wrote on spiritualism and phrenology as well as political economy. Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart...
...Bierce landed in San Francisco in 1866, a tall, blue-eyed ex-Civil War officer, he showed few signs of the savage misanthropy which marked his later work. According to Author Walker's researches, Bitter Bierce's misanthropy began two years after his arrival, when he became Town Crier for the satirical News Letter. Author Walker thinks Bierce enjoyed himself almost as much as did his readers. At any rate he was never sued for libel, shot at, even taken a poke at, in a country where editors' duels were commonplace. Bierce wrote the first realistic descriptions...