Word: localitis
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...John Coolidge, at the White House for Christmas, was invited to a dance in honor of a local debutante, Miss Lydia Archbold. He went without his admission card. A butler requested his name. "John Coolidge." The butler shook his head at the young gatecrasher: "Very sorry, sir, but your name is not on the list. Call some other time." Then Miss Lydia Archbold herself happened on the scene...
...American Federation of Labor will next month contain an item for 36,158 (more or less) copies of a letter by President William Green. For he addressed an epistle to 110 national and international unions, 1,000 city central labor bodies, 48 state federations of labor and 35,000 local unions. It bore the superscription...
Reasoning in a similar vein, one Marshall Hadely, a druggist in Middlesex, England, wrote a physician a letter which was read before the local medical committee...
...Vienna, Doktor Michael Hainisch, President of the Austrian Republic, recently presented a gold medal of the newly established Order of the Austrian Republic to the head of the local Chamber of Commerce...
...babbittry of Graz become aware of what metal it was composed. Then pandemonium broke loose at "this tinsel insult to Graz!" Leaping to his feet, the Herr Professor Doktor Guertler, former Minister of Finance, loyal citizen of Graz, roundly scored and cursed President Hainisch as a "jackass." While local patriots cheered him to the echo, he recited a noted expurgated verse from Goethe's "Knight with Mailed Fist," which is usually regarded as a model of obscene revilement...