Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, however, a county grand jury got wind of the Stoker recordings. The whole story burst across every front page in town. Triumphantly released from jail for a grand jury appearance, Brenda swept in, neat and businesslike in a tailored suit and dark glasses, began to tell all. $50 per Girl. She minced no words. Ever since she had moved into the upper brackets of her profession, she said, she had been paying $50 a week to her old friend Sergeant Jackson for every girl in her employ. And, she added with a vengeful slap at her persecutor...
...again. Two centuries later, however, umbrellas were being greeted with amazement in England and Scotland. North America's first umbrella appeared on the streets of Baltimore in 1772. According to one account, "Pedestrians stood transfixed, women were frightened, horses ran away, and naughty children threw stones. Finally, the town watch was called out to quiet the disturbance...
Late in 1943, Masao Mimatsu, postmaster and amateur volcanologist of Sobetsu, a small town in southwestern Hokkaido, was working on routine papers. Once in a while he looked out the window at his pet volcano, intermittently active Mount Usu, two miles away. On Dec. 31 he heard a mighty rumbling and the ground began to tremble. Shouting "Ji-shin!" (earthquake), he rushed outdoors and looked again at Mount Usu. The tall black volcano showed no signs of life...
Lost Boundaries (Film Classics), first published as a real-life drama in Reader's Digest, described the tragic dilemma of a fair-skinned Negro family in a small New England town who for years had "passed" as whites. The father was a prosperous doctor and a pillar of the community, the mother an active worker in civic affairs. The children, unaware of their antecedents, were normal, happy-go-lucky American school kids-until the day their father, whose secret had been exposed by U.S. naval intelligence, told them the truth. From there on, they became in their own minds...
...sound stage techniques, De Rochemont set to work on location in Portsmouth, N.H. For his cast he recruited a handful of relatively unknown actors and a group of Portsmouth citizens. For sets he used what "was ready to hand: the chaste interiors of Portsmouth homes and the town's shaded streets, simple hospital rooms, and the squalid streets of Harlem...