Word: townes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...EFFECTIVE TODAY?PRICES of FORD CARS AND TRUCKS WILL be reduced." So read last week many a full page advertisement in many a U. S. newspaper. Price cuts ranged from $15 to $200. Roadsters once $450 were reduced to $435, Town Cars once $1,400 now sell at $1,200, the $695 Station Wagon may now be purchased...
...contest between the fraternities to see which can put up the gayest decorations. There are to be slices of yellow and blue; there are to be slices of brilliant crimson: and there are to be huge "M's" and "H's" amidst the galaxy of color. The whole town of Ann Arbor is celebrating the coming of the Crimson...
Despite unwieldy complications, the plot is not a bad one for a melodrama. One has to understand (and stand for) certain conventions in the best of bloody melodramas. The locale is a little town in England, in the dusty shadows of the cathedral close. It is a good stage for a mystery, though one might accuse Mr. Reeve of overdoing the underground passage and hidden chapels a bit for his effect. The story moves swiftly enough, although it might have been better-handled...
...bands marching through the Square and Anderson Bridge will carry only it's normal load of hurried pedestrians. But in Ann Arbor the trumpets will be sounding and the crowds thronging the streets while the Crimson provides a spectacle and social event which has furnished the university town with gossip and expectation for the last few months...
...Once and For All", the anthology of contemporary light essays made by David McCord '21, which is released today, will also be reviewed in tomorrow's Bookshelf. Other books on the list include "It's a Great War", by Mary Lee, "In Princeton Town", by Day Edgar; "Mud and Glory", by James M. Melville, "The Patchwork Madonna", by Harold Weston, "River House", by Stark Young, and "Invitation to Danger", by Alfred Stanford...