Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parties only to discover that no bas' or community of interests existed on which to found a new government. The situation had grown steadily worse since the assassination of Croat leader Stefan Raditch in Parliament (TIME, July 28) and last week the numerous Croatian deputies clamored furiously for local autonomy, demanding for Croatia a sort of "dominion status" under the crown at Belgrade. Since King Alexander is no Croat but a Serbian he was exceeding vexed. After two days and nights of consultation His Majesty's patience with the politicians grew thin. Finally with vigorous pen strokes the king signed...
Like all telephone exchanges, the local office has had its share of amusing requests for information. Outstanding among those was a request for information about the average weight of an hippopotamus. Another time a young girl called up to know if the University Museum was going to exhibit the mermaid which Boston newspapers had reported found off Swampscott. Among the irritating experiences of the operators are inquiries by persons who call up to learn "if the operator is asleep or not", and the arguments of persons who refuse to believe the operator who tells them the line is busy...
...local publication is stamped with the headline "Cambridge's Only Daily Newspaper". If by a newspaper, it means one which describes a Roxbury fire and a burglary on Beacon Street, the slogan is pertinent; otherwise, the Harvard CRIMSON, founded in 1878 may present its claim...
...money to pay a parson. Public houses were boarded up for lack of pennies to buy beer. Miners interviewed repeatedly, said that throughout the Rhondda mining area most families can buy meat not oftener than once a week, seeming to live principally on bread, margarine, tea. At the local Teachers Union an instructor allowed himself to be anonymously quoted thus...
...Tonypandy, Wales, 200 members of the Mid-Rhondda Choral Society gave first performance to a Christmas mass. It was composed by Edwin Gardner, local street cleaner, who, despite no technical knowledge of music, took inspiration from the noises of the street, worked out melodies on a wheezy home organ and turned out a mass that last week made him hero of the Rhondda coal district...