Word: townfolk
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...Townfolk of Huntington, L. L, seeking to purchase as a shrine the modest house where Poet Walt Whitman was born, frothed when Owner John D. Watson demanded $30,000, frothed even more when Owner Watson advertised that its location was ideally suited for a roadside saloon...
...quiet little Pasadena, Calif, one day last week a blast almost materialized that would have shaken the sober townfolk out of their skins. Two blocks from Pasadena's busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid...
...Cambridge, Mass., townfolk watched the doors of a vine-clad chapel open, heard the strains of a Bach fugue issuing forth behind the students of Harvard University as they departed from the opening service of Harvard's 289th year. Prompt to start publication, the Crimson launched an early editorial at Harvard authorities for their "polished neglect" of Prof. George Pierce Baker, long the director of the 47 Wordshop (dramatics). The Workshop will be closed this year, its quarters having been reconverted for dormitory use. For Prof. Baker this means a sabbatical...