Word: townely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With no apologia, alibi or alias, I hereby and now register vehement protest against the harsh treatment and slurring references which you made against the fair suburb of Cicero in the Nov. 20 issue of TIME (p. 16). I do this on behalf of 70,000 residents of the town, 70,000 of the finest people in the United States of America...
Styling the system as the "thorn in the side of the University, the source of the pleasantest college memories, and the basis of its undeserved country-club reputation," Evarts Ziegler analyzes the Princeton Club set-up in an article, "Prospect Not Always Pleasant", in the December issue of Town and Country...
...little part of town...
Harbert, Mich., is a crossroads town about 60 miles east of Chicago across the lake. To get there you have to drive through the gritty desolation of South Chicago, through Gary, where in autumn the blast furnaces at night make a glowering sheet lightning, through the smoke of Michigan City and into clean air again, along Lake Michigan behind some of the biggest sand dunes in the world. Carl Sandburg's place is on top of a dune a mile or so from the Harbert post office. On the land side the house is a triple decker...
...What A Life," with Jackie Cooper, is an unsuccessful small-town drama which might have gone over with a better script, faster-paced direction, fewer cliches, and Mickey Rooney...