Word: smalltown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Past the End of the Pavement-Charles G. Finney-Holt ($2). A nostalgic tale of smalltown, small-boy Missouri brothers with a passion for odd pets. Author Finney (The Circus of Dr. Lao) describes the animals brightly, designs his laughs for adults...
...moldy traditionalist is Father James J. A. Troy, Wartime army chaplain, who took over the new and churchless St. Austin's parish in Minneapolis two years ago. He had already built five smalltown, debt-free churches in Iowa, some unconventional but none radically modern. This time he wanted a church that would look as useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm...
...Riviera and there's always snow in Switzerland" as we headed the press releases sent in by our advertisers, and damning the sheet for the gutless wonder it always has been-but there were times when I think our work refuted your claim the paper was run by "smalltown newspapermen...
...Smalltown rumors flourish best in a big city...
...with the way neighbors borrow and swap, you do us a sorry injustice by limiting our readers to the total number of our weekly circulation. More accurate would be 17,000,000 weekly copies; 85,000,000 smalltown, rural and homesick metropolitan readers. For ours is no subway sedative completing its life-cycle from press to ashcan within two hours...