Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last autumn her talent for mimicry and histrionics was displayed before an admiring hometown audience, in the amateur theatre of the Palo Alto Community Players. Asked to take the part of the Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl...
...wife rolled out of Atlanta early one morning last week in a borrowed Ford sedan. By 10 a.m. they had traveled 75 miles southward over some of Georgia's better highways and pulled up before the house of old hometown friends whom they were visiting. An hour later their friends, Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Pierson of Detroit, were taking them through Warm Springs Foundation. Whom should the visiting husband meet in the glass-enclosed pool-house but the President of the U. S. taking his morning dip. "By the way," said Franklin Roosevelt, grinning up from the water...
...smiling, quiet-spoken, curly-haired youth of 21, Stan Kostka has been dubbed "King Kong" by his hometown sportswriters because he is wedge-shaped and his arms seem to hang, apelike, below his knees. Only 5 ft. 10½ in., his official weight is 210 lb. Rival coaches suspect that this is possibly some 20 lb. short of reality...
...named. He was Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr., 39. of San Francisco. Commander Belgrano is the first Legionary who never got to France with the A. E. F. to reach this topnotch position in the organization. He entered Legion activities when he became a founder of Galileo Post in his hometown. A vice president of Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association, president of Pacific National Fire Insurance Co., Commander Belgrano kept discreet silence when the Bonus ruckus was shrilling about him, pledged a non-political administration...
...provide students with their hometown newspapers and foreign periodicals, a member of the Senior class has started the University Newspaper Service at 1416 Massachusetts Avenue...