Word: hinterlander
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...spring, the music world behaves irregularly. Grand operas and orchestras pack up and travel. Divas obey their pocketbooks or their temperaments. Experimenters trump their partners' aces. Hinterland critics cry bravo. Last week's news...
...SHANNONS OF BROADWAY - A hoofer and his wife buy a hotel in the hinterland (TIME...
Explorer William Montgomery Brown, who a year ago told "Boston rocking-chair voyagers" of jungaleering in the Amazon hinterland among "a human race so low that other natives call them animal folks, of finding caterpillars tough eating," (TIME, Nov. 22, 1926), told another one in his travel book published last week in London...
...green buckram," marshaling perhaps 2,000 mourners. The Super-Reporter noted "an old wattled hinterland peasant with gold earrings. . . . The pathetic mourning of the very poor?ragged arm bands made from black petticoats. . . ." He described the 60 coffins at the grey stone gates "under the splendor of flowers, red banners and black streamers." He let Novelist Lewis spill drops of irony on the "oozing" funeral orations: ". . . such measured, useful and reasonable words . . . uttered by bearded and clever men?all of it like a nice debating society...
...Swedish locomotive, trim and bright, puffed forth from the Turkish Capital at Angora last week, and drew a salon car in which rode the great Ismet Pasha swiftly along 240 miles of new roadbed, linking Angora with the hinterland of Asiatic Turkey...