Word: countryman
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...minuscule amounts. Old Wilhelm was not getting his German rents. His secretaries were commuting between Doom and the Reich, bringing out all the cash the law allowed at each trip. Still it was not enough. In fact, the man whom Germans used to think of as their richest countryman was hard up. A Kaiser no longer, he was still the head of a Royal House, responsible for the miniature court at Doom, the princelings and the horde of poor relations. The solution, old Wilhelm concluded, was to move to Germany to collect the rents and later, perhaps, the crown...
...York State, snug against the Canadian border, is Rouse's Point, identified in Baedeker's guidebook as a U. S. "frontier-station," in the U. S. Government's mind as a famed port of entry for Canadian liquor. Its local press is the weekly North Countryman. Last week the North Countryman charged itself, along with the rest of the U. S. Press, with "selling the Depression to the people through millions of columns of free advertising in the guise of news." The North Countryman (circ. 2,000) promised to print not another line of news or advertising...
...talk of Resubmission, then the Drys with a declaration against Repeal. Most likely beneficiary of these Shortridgean straddles is Mr. Tubbs who stands to gain "regular" votes on the World Court, Wet votes on his outright Repeal plank. Energetic Candidate Tubbs has, during his canvass, startled many a back-countryman by dropping down realistically in remote corners of the State in his autogyro to hold rallies...
...experienced, hard, ruthless; Mr. Baldwin, casual, soft, easygoing, and at that time quite raw. Mr. Baldwin [today leader of the largest British party, Conservative] admits that since then he has learnt a great deal. At that time he merited his constant boast that he was only a 'simple countryman.' A business transaction at that date between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Baldwin was in the nature of a negotiation between a weasel and its quarry...
...Uncle Sam Wilson's initialed meat barrels, declared: "This cant name has got almost as current as 'John Bull.' The letters U. S. on Government wagons are supposed to have given rise to it." The Gazette of the U. S. (Philadelphia) in 1816 explained that a countryman, meeting a regiment of light dragoons, asked what the U. S. L. D. on their caps meant and was told "Uncle Sam's Lazy Dogs...