Me write this in your own words, it's about halloween parties by the 1920s and 1930s, halloween had become a secular, but community-centered holiday, with parades and town-wide halloween parties as the featured entertainment. despite the best efforts of many schools and communities, vandalism began to plague some celebrations in many communities during this time. by the 1950s, town leaders had successfully limited vandalism and halloween had evolved into a holiday directed mainly at the young. due to the high numbers of young children during the fifties baby boom, parties moved from town civic centers into the classroom or home, where they could be more easily accommodated.

During the 1920's and 1930's vandalism was a major issues during Halloween parties. Schools and towns had many issues controlling the problem no matter how hard they tried. Fortunately, by the time the 1950's rolled around, Halloween was mostly celebrated in homes and classrooms instead of giant parties. The target audience was also children, who were much easier to control.

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the correct answer would be:  

a. adverb phrase

the sentence that best describes the tone of the passage from the radio broadcast compared to the passage from the book is b. the radio broadcast has a more surprised tone.

consider the text evidence: in the passage from the book, the description is more matter-of-fact. it is simply describing the things resembling little grey snakes, but there is no urgency in the description. on the other hand, in the passage from the radio broadcast, there is definetely urgency (you can tell from the expression used, "good heavens", which clearly indicates surprise.)