Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot. Rain drizzled down over the foothills of the Smokies. The mood carried into a big tent in Morristown, Tenn. (pop. 13,000), where members of the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union, Local 1054, fidgeted...
...families now consist of one or two old people." Eight out of ten of Mart's high-school boys go on to college each year; Mart has few jobs for college graduates. For recreation, the youngsters drive 18 miles into Waco. Said J. H. Rogers, local car dealer: "We just rock along. Sometimes we have two, three good days and then it will be quiet. Business isn't bad, but then it isn't going to get any better...
...cold. There were no headlines dealing with such big day-by-day space-fillers as domestic politics and sport. Only one out of ten editors thought the biggest news would come in religion, science or both. And only one, in local-news-playing Boston (TIME, April 10), kept his local blinders on. The headlines...
Cooper, in a string tie and Stetson, rides into town to resume his family's feud with Donald Crisp, the local tobacco tycoon and father of Patricia Neal. Teaming up with Jeff Corey, a Connecticut Yankee inventor of a newfangled cigarette-making machine, Cooper ruins Tycoon Crisp, marries his spirited daughter and displays his growing ruthlessness by flexing his jaw muscles and compressing his lip. Along the way are all the standard climaxes-street fights, a shooting, a suicide, fires, foreclosures and pointless lovers' quarrels. At the end, discovering that power corrupts and that none...
Cartoonist Lancaster's sprightly, prattling text is as amusing as his drawings. As a whole it is a parody of the fly-blown local guide (revised edition, 1910), which is all that the tourist is sure to find in the average British town bookshop. It also unobtrusively manages to deliver a great deal of shrewd literary and social satire. The reader who follows the career of the Figet (or Fidget) family from the days of 15th Century Master Humfrey Figet down to the gayer days of the lovely Shelmerdine Parsley-Ffidgett (who was painted in the buff by Modigliani...