Hub of the Universe

Boston's icy reception to the Games may reveal something deeper about the city that likes to call itself the Hub of the Universe, often without irony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2015

Augustus Cabot chose a school, a select, aristocratic and expensive school near the "Hub of the Universe."

From Galusha the Magnificent by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

A friend from the Hub of the Universe, in a somewhat supercilious manner, not long ago informed one of our local friends that his own home was hundreds of miles to the southward.

From Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Well, he left his native State, and set up at the Hub of the Universe, which every one knows is Boston, where he began his education as a financier and a millionaire.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

That it constituted any tie between him and the "Hub of the Universe," unless it might be the inverted tie of opposition, he never admitted.

From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by La Salle Corbell Pickett