Word: localitis
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...Brattle Hall concert is always the biggest feature of the local concerts given by the clubs, and is to include several specialty acts which will be announced later. The list of patronesses has not yet been filled, but will include the names of many prominent in University and Cambridge affairs...
...cable from Sydney, New South Wales, announced that the local government had decided to send to President Coolidge a painting of the U. S. fleet as it lay in Sydney harbor last summer. A committee in charge decided to inquire whether a canvas 84 by 60 feet could be cared for in the Capitol...
...Most of the cast have departed to show London how U. S. prizefighters talk. The local substitutes are highly capable...
Late and unsubstantiated despatches from Moscow reported that Chang's troops had seized "numerous additional Soviet workers and officials at Harbin." Allegedly Chang imposed a complete censorship upon the local Soviet newspapers, which appeared "with big blank white pages" in protest...
Death came last week to Desiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier. At it the dying one looked with composure, with a clear mind, a peaceful mind. For days he knew he had no further earthly hopes. Three weeks before, under a local anesthetic, he had been operated upon for a stomach ulcer; and he had watched the operation with the understanding gained in his early days as a medical student. He had seemed to rally. But the long precedent persistent dyspepsia, which had made nutrition insufficient for "his active life, had been an incubus to his strength. Food he swallowed...