Word: townely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guide books, Figueras is remembered as the town where the marriage of King Philip V to Marie Louise of Savoy was ratified in 1701. In the guide books of the future, Figueras will be more vividly remembered as the meeting place of one of the strangest sessions of the Cortes, the Spanish Parliament. The Spanish Constitution requires a session of the Cortes at least every six months. Determined to be scrupulously constitutional, the Premier called a Cortes meeting despite the gravity of the military situation. In an underground, bombproof cavern of the 18th-Century Castle of San Fernando...
...Chicago, British Band-Leader Jack Hylton took with him a slight-framed pianist named Alec Templeton. Pianist Templeton was blind, but he had large, sensitive ears. Chicago listeners were amazed at his uncanny versatility. He could ripple through a Mozart concerto with thorough orthodoxy, and next minute go to town in a jammed-up version of The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round. Not only could he swing Bach, he could Bach swing. He could improvise in the style of any classical composer, aid get such a good likeness that most listeners were fooled...
...Recorded are his jazz fugue, Bach Goes Town (Victor), and an album of satires (Gramophone Shop, Inc., 18 East 45th Street, Manhattan...
Last week Oswego High School was placid as a summer day. Principal Salter had promptly suspended nine rowdy ringleaders. One of them was Andrew ("Bud") Pierce, son of the town's mayor...
...solidly considered plan of rapid transit. It suggested that the city utilize the drained Miami & Erie canal for the underground mileage, cover it with a high-speed roadway for surface traffic. Even in the Graphic days the two-square-mile Basin was beginning to be crowded and Cincinnatians, whose town has more hills and valleys than any other in the Union, were putting their homes back on the hilltops to get above and beyond the city's industrial smoke...