Word: hinterlander
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...challenger was a hopeful organization entitled the American Na tional Theatre and Academy, whose advisory board includes such theatre folk as Katharine Cornell, Maxwell Anderson, the Lunts, Lee Simonson, Robert Edmond Jones. Because these people believe that future health and expansion for the U. S. theatre lies in the hinterland rather than in hectic Manhattan, the site pro posed for their festival theatre was on the campus of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. First prize...
...there been such a striking example of a whole civilization pulling up its roots and moving elsewhere. The Government, the Army, much of China's cultural and industrial life and millions of refugees from the devastated eastern Yangtze valley set out to a new "New China" in the hinterland which had been frantically prepared during 18 months of war. The new "New China" is composed of the provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Szechuan, Kangsu, Sikang, Tsinghai, and the Chinese Communist-held province of Shensi-places which two years ago seemed to most Chinese as remote as Alaska...
Fourteen years ago a young Brazilian, Virgilino Ferreira da Silva, persuaded the trusting Assembly of the State of Pernambuco to make him an honorary captain in its constabulary so that he might avenge his father who had been murdered in Pernambuco's hinterland. The Assembly made a mistake...
Actually the nearest colliery is nine miles away [from Cardiff], and the great docks and ironworks are concentrated on the seaboard, whilst the purity and clarity of the air of the city itself and its hinterland are invariably a source of amazement to visitors...
Indian headdress (see cut). This is the third time in three months that the ambitious "Little Flower" has got out into the hinterland to let the people see what he looks and sounds like...