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They had cleaned up an old ice box and begun to buy fifty-pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there.
Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.
Gulf Springs was ten miles inland -- more of a quaint old coast town than those along the beach made garish by tourist attractions.
The fine old mansions of U.S. Grant's old home town of Galena, Ill. are open for inspection ( Sept. 23, 24 ).
So had Miss Shawnee Rakestraw, full of criticisms about the changes here, giving thanks that her dear old father had gone to his Heavenly Rest last year, saying how much she enjoyed her boarding house in town in inclement weather, was looking forward to Quinzaine Spa this summer.
* 2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
The historic old town forms an irregular square, consisting of four parts ( called Stöcke ).
The old town, Laurenzenvorstadt, government building, cantonal library, state archive and art museum are all listed as heritage sites of national significance.
Best eaten at the famous Ikbal restaurants ( either the old one in the town centre or the big place on the main road ).
At the end of the war, 19-year old student Robert Limpert tried to get the town to surrender to the US Forces without a fight.
The old hospital in the town dates from 1717.
Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.
A view of Samuil's Fortress, over the old town in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia | Macedonia.
* Castello, the old town center of Giudicato of Cagliari in Sardinia
Dartmouth also has a pre-school in the centre of town, established for over 40 years and based in the old Victorian school rooms at South Ford Road.
Running from the west the river Amper runs south of Dachau ’ s old town, changes its direction at the former paper milling plant to the northeast and continues through Prittlbach into Hebertshausen.
Captain Cole was installed as Constable and strengthened the castle wall and built a " fair house " on the old foundation as the centrepoint of the county town.
Ennius was born at Rudiae, an old Italian ( predominantly Oscan ) town historically founded by the Messapians.
Two churches were reconstructed and the remaining ruins of the old town were torn down in the 1960s.
Once a year a candlelight walk is held in old town Eureka.
The traditional subdivision of Florence into four quarters dates from the 14th century ( that today compose the old town ):
While travel to Brazil is via the old cattle trail it has been upgraded into a fair weather track that passes through the bauxite-producing town of Linden and ending at Lethem.
in old town areas.
File: Ohrid Upper Gate close-up. jpg | Medieval ironclad city gate, from the Upper Gate in the old town of Ohrid

old and is
It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.
But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.
Truman Capote is still reveling in Southern Gothicism, exaggerating the old Southern legends into something beautiful and grotesque, but as unreal as -- or even more unreal than -- yesterday.
Lacking the pioneer spirit necessary to write of a new economy, these writers seem to be contenting themselves with an old one that is now as defunct as Confederate money.
It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.
but they can hardly deny that, exaggerated or not, the old panorama is dead.
One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.
It is a total situation that is defended: the `` good old days ''.
But The Holy Sinner is not simply a retelling of old stories for an old man's entertainment.
Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.
The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.
One is that there sometimes are real although inadequate compensations in growing old.
The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.
The craft made the familiar unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock Shadow.
Seen in decorating circles of late is a renewed interest in an old art: embroidery.
It is not as convenient as the old type toothbrush and the paste tends to shimmy off the bristles.

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