Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chivalry is not bounded by the ivy quadrangles of old England or the wide campuses of America. This was something that long needed saying, if only to give the lie to the "Constant Reader" whose form letter appears about twice a week in the local press, retelling the pathetic tale of the old lady with the black shawl who had to stand up in the subway all the way to Harvard Square...
...useless bloodshed; but the revolt was seemingly over, despite rumors to the contrary and assertions of bandit terrorism, which probably had nothing to do with the revolt. And that, in the opinion of most observers, was that. Protests from foreign powers seemed unlikely, the rumpus being a purely local affair...
Darvall is active in the Liberal Party; he is on its local Executive Committee, and was in 1925 a delegate of his Constituency to the National Liberal Convention...
...third speaker, John Ramage, is a student of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is active in national as well as university politics, having been secretary of the local organization of the British Labor Party. Ramage was a member of the debating team which met the Australian team touring Europe and America on the "White Australia" issue. The debate was presided over by the Right Honorable L. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, and attracted widespread attention as a statement of the color problem in Australia...
...advent of art to Brattle Street is an occasion for loud applause. True, art has a habit of coming to Brattle Street but usually it is in less interesting and more turgid forms than distinctive movies. The program of films scheduled for the coming months at the local guild hall is remarkable; it includes such diversions as "Stark Love", supposedly as near unpremeditated art as a camera man can approach, Janning's "The Last Laugh", and other foreign and native pictures which are made with at least one eye on an intelligent public and off the box office...