Word: localism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local partisans, yesterday afternoon came in two installments: one was picturesque, and the other emotionally pleasing...
...Brattle Theatre has extended invitations to Rex Harrison, Joyce Redman, Jane Pickens, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Cheryl Crawford, and other actors and producers currently presenting plays locally, to be their guests at a newly established Sunday evening "Star Night." The purpose is to allow them to see other plays on their night off, Brattle being the only local theater running Sundays...
Crane estimates that 5000 voters, constituting almost 10 percent of the total Cambridge vote, live in the Harvard area. Most of this vote, however, has been dormant in past local elections...
...half dudes, toss on backwoods clothing and 120 feet of coiled rope and ride the subway to Quincy under the disapproving glances of Bostonian eyebrows. The quarry itself is a city of rock cliffs and groundwater lakes, where engineers built America's first cog railway in 1836 and a local murderer dumped a dead salesman in 1948. Old-timers in the Har- vard crowd simply sidle up to a cliff and start, walking up the wall in a manner that is quite disconcerting to observe...
...coming thing in continental transportation, however, is hitch-hiking. It apparently came in with the G.I's. Its local name is "auto-stop," and differs from the U. S. variety in that it is considered impolite to stick out one's thumb. The proper method is to hold out the whole arm, bout at the elbow. Even girls can hitch-hike without eyebrows being raised...