Word: localitis
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...TIME was that we doubted whether a Western Union messenger would be permitted to deliver a message of such serious import to a golf player at the tee at the beginning of a tournament match. I, therefore, developed the facts and am sending you the report of our local General Superintendent just as he made...
...local (New York) general superintendent's report said...
...other country has, as far as I know, any publication comparable with yours. It is a national asset of high value, especially as it is usually a long and difficult job to dig out of the ordinary American paper the news of importance and of more than local interest...
Never once did the committee come within four aces of averting a strike. It would have been infra dig for both operators and miners (accustomed to the intervention of U. S. Presidents, or, at the least, of Pennsylvania Governors) to lie down together at the behest of the local citizenry...
...buxom Bella Jorden, preening her black silk on the porch of the Goat and Compasses; Rose Jorden talking furtively with some man through a hedge; old Mrs. Dunk, the charwoman, pottering about the graveyard; plump-breasted Sally Dunk, flirting boldly in the lane. Of an evening you hear the local males talking at the inn, Crome's moral centre. By night, the sleeping selves of the villagers come drifting, roaming, crying about the gusty square. In that ghostly company, the public fronts are removed from secret hopes and hungers. Old mortality scoffs and the Crome-dwellers compromise with their morrows...