Word: localitis
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...singularly static confection and insignificantly priced, its selection for titular symbolism in this musical comedy is open to criticism. With the exception of Runnin' Wild the production is the most uncompromisingly active show now exhibiting. It contains as aggressive a display of irrepressible dancing as does Dervish local No. 324 of Delhi...
...intention is not to give an elaborate description of the wretched conditions in Italy before Mussolini took the wheel for a few striking instances will suffice to support my point of view. Riots robberies, assaults, and even murders were things of every day occurrence. Strikes not only of a local but also a general character, such as involved the nation's railroads and telegraph system, were so numerous that to pick up an Italian newspaper and miss a front page heading prelating thereto would be an unusual surprise. Graft existed in all departments of the government, and burdensome taxes were...
...many college towns there exist feuds of long standing and great venerability between the local police and the students. Whether or not there is such a feud in New York is hard to say, but the latest stroke of Police Commissioner Enright's "special flying squads" is either a masterful sort of retaliation or else a most dastardly trick. These special raiding squads are composed exclusively of "young detectives apparently chosen for their ability to look and act the college boy on a lark"; they trickle insidiously into the doomed "chop house", purchase several drinks and then ungratefully arrest...
...with the disease. If the patient has scarlet fever the skin becomes pale at the spot. This is taken as an indication that the serum of patients recovering from scarlet fever contains antisubstances against the disease, and these act against the toxins causing the eruption and bring about the local blanching of the skin. In 1897, Weisbecker in Germany began the use of serum from convalescing patients in the treatment of scarlet fever. Its use in several thousands of cases has now established it as a standard form of treatment...
Senator "Magnavox" Johnson of Minnesota traveled to Manhattan speak to a mass meeting against a local bill proposed to purify all literature circulating in New York State. Said he: "It doesn't hurt any one when a man tells the truth, and for that reason I am against the clean books bill. . . . Speaking of attempts at censorship, Senator Heflin of Alabama was recently very much annoyed when those listening to a speech he was making went outside to see an airplane flying above the Capitol. He forthwith proposed a bill making it illegal to fly within 6,000 feet...