Word: localitis
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...Nixon has brought suit for $5,000 damages against election judges C. C. Herndon and Charles Porras. Dr. Nixon's attorneys being F. C. Knollenberg, a member of the local N. A. A. C. P., and Robert J. Channell...
...Some local genius has invented the slogan, "Me for Ma", which has gained considerable vogue. If the vote, which in the first primary was split among the eight so-called anti-Klan candidates, centres upon "Ma" Ferguson in the second primary, it will be hard to stop her election...
...Louis has recently become the scene of a successful musical experiment. In a cup-shaped auditorium seating 10,000, opera, grand or comic, has been given nightly. The principal singers and comedians are imported; the choruses are local talent - St. Louis boys and maidens, trained throughout the Winter months. Velvet Summer twilights in St. Louis thrill to the strains of Verdi, Mascagni, Gilbert and Sullivan; the moon, that vision of still music in the sky, looks down upon declamatory stars in tinsel and brocade...
...announced that in future Summers the citizens of Atlanta are to be an open-air auditorium, to hold mony as the inhabitants of St. Louis. A municipal opera is planned, with imported stars, local choruses; there is to be an open-air auditorium, to hold...
Molnar dominates the list. There is currently a good deal of controversy over his first name. He is expected in Manhattan this season and presumably the Local of the Back Slappers' Union is determined that he shall feel at home. Dissension has arisen in their ranks as to what to call him. Originally, he was discovered as Franz; later it became Ferenc, and there is a distinct movement afoot at present to simplify it to just plain Francis. But that is one of those problems that must simply be left to work themselves out in their...