Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caroling over loud speakers goes on at all times in the old town square in Prague, where people assemble to view the elaborate Yule decorations. "This caroling tradition is continued in the family's Christmas celebration: after the children light the candles on the tree, everyone sings carols until dinner arrives," Miss Parsons added...
...tall, tweedy, disarmingly mild-mannered fellow, with thinning light brown hair, a sparse mustache and earnest mien; he looks like a shy, quizzical cow college professor-except for his wary blue eyes. The mild manner camouflages a tough, diamond-hard core. And his casual clothes, his innocuously small-town look serve him well in Washington's lower echelons, where many of his tipsters work...
...famed "red house on R Street," where high officials were wined and duped, Monroe sued for $1,000,000. So Pearson got a young mutual friend to get better acquainted with Monroe. "I don't put servants in people's houses," explains Pearson, "or plant people around town. But in this case I was fighting for a million bucks." The young man dug up enough dirt to put Monroe in jail-and the libel suit was dismissed...
...center of the town, they overturned a small commercial van and caused damage of serious consequence to the business of its owner-driver, who was in it at the time. They also uprooted a traffic beacon and thrust it through the glass door of a shop. Near Christ's Lane, a car was seized and attempts were made to overturn it. The occupants, an old lady and gentleman, were severely shaken and the lady collapsed...
When he went back to his home town in 1915 to practice medicine, young Dr. William Lowry Pressly worked under a small handicap. It was embarrassing to be remembered, and hailed, as "Buck." But before long he was "Dr. Buck." After 33 years he is still Dr. Buck to most of the 2,250 people in Due West,* S.C. But in other ways, times have changed...