Word: localitis
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...morning last week, lessons were proceeding as usual at Oak Park (Ill.) High School, when a messenger from Principal M. R. McDaniel's office entered one of the classrooms and haled Student Sam Givens into the corridor. He was wanted at "the office." Having lately won a local oratorical contest, Sam flushed with pleasure, thinking to himself: "Ho, ho, this will be something that Mac [Principal McDaniel] wants to say to me about the national oratorical contest...
...state of affairs came to pass today we should say, "Ah, an eclipse." British astronomers have, according to despatches last week, determined that the only total solar eclipse visible from Ithaca, home of Ulysses, during the first quarter of the 12th Century B. C., occurred at 11:41 a.m. local mean time, April 16, 1177 B. C. From this deduction the Trojan War was dated 1197 to 1187 B. C.; Ulysses' wanderings...
...President. At Dallas, Tex. aloof from the local agitation sprung from the presence of the American Medical Association convention there, Mrs. John Mark Hanna stayed, grieving over the recent death of her husband. At Milwaukee the Y. W. C. A. delegates were thinking of her for their next president, recalled her work on their national board, her beneficient work among Negroes. A tolerant Presbyterian herself, she had long advocated the freer membership requirements. So with little opposition they chose her president for the next two-year term...
...called "Bert." He is rarely seen in public, almost never in the company of such famed rubber men as Harvey S. Firestone and Frank A. Seiberling (president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 1898-1920, of Seiberling Rubber Co. since 1920). Even his comings and goings pass unchronicled in the local press...
...with it. Highworth Ridden, youngest son of a hardbitten English squire, is followed through a color-splashed whirligig of adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There is bloodletting for the sake of seeing an ivory floor incarnadined. The palace is yellow; the guards wear scarlet; Santa Barbarian males are tall, red-golden of hue and often go nearly naked. There are some 400 pages of highly involved events, followed by much sacking...