Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest and are suspicious and ignorant of each other." The base of this feeling is the contrast between the mass of low-paid industrial labor in Cambridge and the wealthy and irresponsible student body This fact has not been stressed before, and certainly no account of the relations between town and gown can ignore it. But there is a long gap between the existence of such disparities of wealth and the present tenseness between the two groups. The Progressive tries to make clear this causal relation by stating that as a result of their status "a large part...
...Wilder's new farce, "The Merchant of Yonkers," which opened last night with Jane Cowl in the leading role. And yet this sometimes touching story of the petty desires of mankind for excitement and fun and just a little money, is not really so different from the poignant "Our Town" in its sympathetic treatment of the average mortal, a treatment almost Dickensonian in quality which has made Mr. Wilder one of the foremost dramatists of our-time...
...contest for the title of "proudest small town in America," judges awarded the prize to Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...
...laundry 20 years ago (at 22), he in vented the slogan "Long Live Linen," splashed it all over Washington, dressed his delivery boys in blue-&-gold livery, soon seemed to have a branch on almost every street corner and was washing the fanciest sheets and dressiest shirts in town...
...registration regulations is any indication, Harvard is ready to cooperate. It is to the students' best interests to fill out the questionnaire immediately and thus further show their desire for a reconciliation with the city authorities. Then all Cambridge can be refreshed by the thought that for a change town and gown are on the same side of the fence...