Word: localitis
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...king, Sultan Ahmad Shah, who left Persia for a joy trip to France two years ago, sent a telegram some days ago to the Persian Minister informing him the date of his departure for Persia. This wire, being printed in local papers, roused the anger of all Persians, especially inhabitants of Azerbaijan. Consequently from all parts of Persia telegrams were sent to Majlis (parliament) asking that our delegates to gather and take a final decision whether the Shah should return or not. Delegates paid no attention to their demands and eventually the situation began to grow worse and worse every...
...expressions and terms which originate in the colleges and universities as a rule have both the subtle, and the extremely ridiculous elements which make good humor. They are, however, of too local a nature to be appreciated by most audiences. The primary requirement of the stage "wise crack" is that it be comprehensible to a majority of the listeners...
...Cramer read the local papers, he would have seen that the sport writers here agreed with you that the Pitt team "had been badly outplayed all afternnoon by W. & J." No other estimate would be possible were one to compare the records of first-downs...
...enthralled local Chamber of Commerce, Congressman Sol Bloom, member of the House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, recommended that Brooklyn hold a world's fair and permanent international exposition in 1932 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. He proposed the use of 2,200 acres of undeveloped park land on Jamaica Bay, the erection of buildings with 5,000,000 square feet of floor space for exhibits by the U. S. and 46 foreign governments, a stadium to hold 200,000 people, parking space for 100,000 automobiles, the highest tower...
...last an empty stomach induced him to try to make a living. So he enlisted as butler in the family of a puisne judge. There he learned to put on style, and as the gayest and sassiest man on the island he became a wooer of the local belle, Jezebel Pettyfer. At this flowing tide of his affairs he lost his position because of an unfortunate argument with his mistress over the disposition of the cadaver of her lamented dog Aristotle. That same night he proposed to Jezebel, offering her Jehu Sennacherib Dyle in holy matrimony. Jezebel, though coy, finally...