Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where he had officially dedicated a 1,615-foot dam which will irrigate the now-dreary site of the Garden of Eden, Ghazi set out from the royal palace in Bagdad in an open sports car. He was on his way to Harthiyah Palace, a few miles from town. As he zoomed past a crossing, he lost control of the car, shot off the road smack into an electric light pole. His skull was crushed and he died within an hour. It took only twelve hours for anti-British trouble to break...
Dodge City (Warner Bros.). This picture had last week the most expensive cinema première on record. To the little Kansas town whose history it purports to record, Warners transported trainloads of notables. One contingent of 175 stars, pressagents and columnists was brought from Hollywood. Another of 14 newspapermen was imported from Manhattan. Dodge City store fronts were dressed up for the event in old Western style. Its somewhat sheepish residents, at the request of Warner Bros.' publicity staff, grew beards, carried hoss-pistols, danced in the streets for 60,000 visitors...
Three months ago convivial L. M. Parton, secretary of the Nocona Chamber of Commerce, conceived a publicity stunt. His idea: a 2,000-mile pony express race from his little (pop. 2,352) North Texas leather-manufacturing town to San Francisco, to tie Nocona to the tail of the Golden Gate International Exposition...
Alma Swensson was the prim, capable wife of a Lutheran schoolman in the little Swedish-American town of Lindsborg, Kans. (pop. 2,004). Alma Swensson loved Handel's oratorio, The Messiah, decided that her Swedish neighbors should hear it too. So she sent for the music, gathered a chorus of young people from the surrounding towns and farms, rehearsed them and let the welkin ring. That...
Last week Lindsborg's chorus sang its 168th Messiah. Visitors from as far away as Mexico swelled the little Kansas town to two-and-a-half times its normal population. Besides the Messiah the Lindsborgers sang Bach's surging, intricate St. Matthew Passion. Twice a week for many weeks, the husky, hard-handed choristers had rehearsed with religious earnestness. Some drove from farms 50 miles away. Imported soloists from the East marveled at the sober fervor with which they chanted the complicated scores...