Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fascism, and likened him to Hitler.) In an effort to inject some commotion, both parties revived the old-time torchlight procession. Harry Truman began the week with a monster rally in Chicago, where Boss Jake Arvey's minions kindled enough flame and fireworks to burn down the whole town. Tom Dewey, after another dash through the Midwest, would conclude his campaign at a Madison Square Garden rally which would be heralded by the red flares of a Manhattan parade...
...just had a cup of flour among the five of us. The closest town was several days away, but there might be food on top of the mountain--7000 feet up through snow and storm. Then again, there might...
...scandalizing the bourgeoisie (he once wrote: "The thought of what America would be like/If the Classics had a wide circulation/ Troubles my sleep."). But though he is desperately eager to appear the European sophisticate, there is always in Pound's work a strong tinge of the small-town American crank-the kind who spits on the stove in the general store and spouts about "guvment" and "money changers...
...bombing raid that wrecked and burned their town, Carla and Giulia, cousins in their mid-teens, lost their grandmother in whose house they had lived. Alone and hungry, they turned for help to Carla's boy friend, Tullio, leader of a gang which preyed on the ruins of the town and prepared arms for a future Communist uprising. Tullio installed them in an abandoned brothel, where the three set up house, living off the money Tullio stole and Carla made as a prostitute...
Boys from Hanover were in town over the weekend. They walked off with a football game and parts of a goal post. They left behind them a grey, dismal Cambridge, splashing sadly in the Sunday morning rain...