Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead of night, Czech soldiers at the disposal of the Carpatho-Ukraine Government, aided by armed members of the SIC, a militant political organization under German auspices, advanced on the border town of Munkacs, awarded to Hungary in the post-Munich territorial revision. Hungarian frontier police and troops met them. A battle began in which the Czech forces used tanks, armored cars and trench mortars...
Producer Abbott apparently believes that the impending suit will not affect the play, for the family of February Hill is named Harris and lives in Fall River, whereas the family of The Primrose Path is named Wallace and lives in "a small town near Buffalo...
...Lloyd Cassel Douglas' family have a way of blossoming at the age of 50. His father, a worldly, small-town lawyer for 30 years, suddenly turned preacher. He himself, though he wanted to be a doctor, was also a preacher for three sober decades. In the midst of a series of essays on Personality Expansion Through Private Philanthropy, he decided to write a novel. Magnificent Obsession, published (1929) when he was 52, sold about 225,000 copies. Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1932) and Green Light (1935) sold 267,256 copies. Reason: in his novels he kept right on writing...
John Fane, a sleepy, upper-middle-class London publisher, father of four grown children; and Mary Fane, who putters around their country home planning parish fêtes and dinners for twelve. At 53 John finds he has money, leisure, no fun. Soon he has a town apartment, a mistress, no wife...
...only does such a program serve to strengthen the tenuous bond between town and gown, but it also supplies an extremely valuable type of training to the participating students. There is a certain point beyond which no amount of classroom instruction will improve a speaker's technique; then it is that experience comes into its own as the best possible teacher...