Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heraclio Alfaro, a Cleveland college instructor formerly with the Glenn L. Martin aircraft company in Cleveland, were building a plane of secret design, trying to win the Guggenheim Foundation's $100,000 prize for aeronautical progress. At the same time, people learned that Ace Ingalls was on his hometown Chamber of Commerce's aviation committee, helping to make Cleveland a bigger & better airport. Other retired fliers knew how Ace Ingalls felt when, quizzed by importunate newsgatherers about his new plane, he squinted, smiled and said...
John F. Hylan, famed for what he did not accomplish as Mayor of New York City (1918-25) and for a remark his wife did not utter to Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians,* last week earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
Nearly everybody recalls such letters in the native press; letters from missionaries, letters from soldiers; letters from tourists struggling to describe in words that the hometown will understand 77 wonders of another world. Occasionally they contain a real news story. John H. O'Connor's did. The inauguration* of construction work on the first Persian railroad, which will connect the capital, Teheran, with the Persian Gulf, is an event of which many internationally minded U. S. citizens are unwillingly ignorant...
...simple, hometown ceremony. But next June?! Next June, President Coolidge, the great man of the present hour, will visit Marion and make a speech. He will help Marion and the Nation dedicate the Harding sepulchre, even as President Roosevelt entered Ohio in September, 1907, to make a speech at Canton and dedicate what was then "Ohio's Shrine", the sepulchre of William McKinley...
...owns the Banner and of course she has the money. A dark, handsome chap, her childhood lover, appears suddenly, conducts himself in a manner to provoke scandalous gossip, succeeds in compromising the lady, and turns out to be the villain who robs ignorant foreigners of their hoarded pennies. A "hometown" girl furnishes the aristocratic flavor. Having eloped with an impoverished Russian count, she returns to air her sophistications and provide limitless material for occasional "cat fests...