Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Largest and swankiest spa in England is the venerable town of Bath, 107 miles from London. Bath's principal claims to fame are its Roman remains, its Georgian house-fronts, and its spring water. Gouty Britishers have drunk and dunked themselves in Bath's water since the time of the Roman Empire. Not so well known as Bath's baths, but no less remarkable, is Bath's Pump Room Orchestra, a small 18-man group, which is today the oldest established orchestra in the British Empire...
...French departments, put in United Press service, used airplanes to get his paper to London and Amsterdam, upped daily stock quotations from five or six to 600. Hills wanted to make the Herald an international paper, and did, but at the same time it remained a small-town sheet, written by small-town newspapermen for the army of small-town Americans that took Paris after...
...most famed modern sociologists is Robert Staughton Lynd, Princeton '14. Dr. Lynd is best known for the monumental studies he and his eminent wife made of the town of Muncie, Ind. and described in Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937). Since he wrote Middletown, Dr. Lynd has taught sociology at Columbia University and brooded on the fact that mankind, busily using the knowledge of natural scientists to make dangerous machines, remains in different to the knowledge of social scientists. Looking upon a chaotic world, Professor Lynd decided that it was a great tragedy that "men build their cultures...
What are the landmarks of America? Guidebooks and histories point to battlefields and the birthplaces of celebrities. But plain citizens who know their own towns know landmarks with less elevated associations: skyscrapers, banks, the saloon where the town boss held office, the hotel where politicians made their deals, the street corner where some brilliant newcomer was shot-the miscellaneous, nondescript, undistinguished scenes of local history which old-timers recognize and visitors pass without seeing...
Shenandoah. Huddled in a fold in the Pennsylvania hills, with bulbous Greek Catholic church domes rising over wooden houses, this once-prosperous anthracite town is rusty, dingy, mournful, too melodramatic to be desolate. The Shenandoah City Colliery, its windows broken, its stacks smokeless, is a wild ruin; Stief's Cut Rate Drug and Quick Lunch occupies the banking room of the defunct Shenandoah Trust Co. But once John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, rode triumphantly up Main Street. Joseph Beddal was killed during the strike of 1902 trying to smuggle arms to strikebreakers besieged in the Reading...