Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until that juncture, "The Scarlet Fox" had been rather a nifty throwback, with Mr. Mack and his dauntless associates in credible controversy with the sins and shames of rural Alberto. In the second act all of us had been intrigued, as they say in "Hedda Gabler," by the photographic reproduction of a frontier lupinar, if one may be permitted to call it so. Wild ladies of the night held outrageous wassail with officers of the law, and the wicked tinkle of best glasses accompanied the loose music of a brothel piano. Beneath the revelry a vigilant Justice brooded; for Sergeant...
Agriculture. Electrified systematically many rural areas...
Chicago, like New York, like many another U. S. city, clamors for Home Rule, against a State legislature controlled by rural representatives. More than 50% of the U. S. population is urban. One generation more, prophesy the experts, and two-thirds of the population will be urban. Urban communities complain that control by country men, ignorant of city problems, is intolerable. Where city controls country, farmers are equally vexed. Most of the States, says Professor Merriam, are the anachronistic creatures of surveyors' chains. "The nation and the city are vigorous organs. . . . The truth is that the State is standing...
What seemed to have occurred was that several thousand rural bravos & marauders descended upon Leiyang to stage a good old-fashioned glut. Whole families were tortured until they told the whereabouts of valuables and gold. Dirty thumbs with ragged nails gouged out the eyes of stubborn misers or those who really had no gold. Finally surviving citizens of Leiyang were herded and penned into buildings which were lighted and burned amid awful outcries. The heathen, glutted to repletion, spread their grins and carried off their loot. Supplementary despatches confirmed that those burned & butchered numbered approximately...
Thirty years ago, rural visitors to Manhattan were careful to see the Eden Musée which, like Madame Tussaud's* in London and the Grévin in Paris, was a gallery of wax statues. The collection was at that time situated on 23rd Street; of late years, its patronage lessened but not destroyed, the Eden Musée has been located on Coney Island...