Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...houses, Richard Boleslavsky, formerly director of the First Moscow Art Theatre Studio, stages a delightful, farcical frivolity that skips over the stage and down the aisles on pleasantly intimate terms with its audience. A French bridegroom must match a rare straw hat on his wedding day. Encumbered by a rural wedding party, driven by a fierce Lieutenant, he squirms from one ticklish situation to another, while the audience's amusement is heightened by music with strong rhythm, a buoyant chorus of youthful actors, ingenious flipping about of scenery...
...brown Country Nymphs and rural Swains...
...confer upon correspondence students. Newspaper displays made it appear as though famed Professors John Dewey (philosophy), Michael Idvorsky Pupin (science), Ashley H. Thorndike and John Erskine (literature), and peers would personally supervise the work of unseen disciples, send them their marks, write them advice, send pearls of erudition by rural free delivery. Shrewd customers; however, did not raise their hopes so high. They well knew that, like the Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin, California and other institutions conducting extension courses, Columbia must find mail-order pedagogy in such demand that an able corps of special assistant instructors is necessary to assist...
...farm crop is 30% higher than it was in 1921; our national wealth is greater than that of Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy combined. 3) A restrictive immigration law which prevents unfair competition with our labor. 4) Help for the farmers by extension of $500,000,000 in rural credits and permitting co-operative marketing without conflict with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. 5) A policy of economy which has reduced expenditure per annum from $6,141,000,000 in 1921 to approximately $3,500,000,000 in 1926; brought down the national debt five billions of dollars...
...princes), subservant to the Empress. The term "Abyssinian," corrupted from the Arabic Habesh ("mixed," "mongrel") well describes this people who shade in different parts of the Empire from white through reddish-brown to ebony, and from Christianity to Mohammedanism. To the curious traveler's eye, Abyssinia presents a rural scene, picturesquely set off by civic stenches. Camels jog up to French Somaliland with gum and ostrich feathers which are bartered there for cheap Occidental jewelry and clothing or for rock salt, lumps of which pass current as money in the interior, as do cartridges. The Empress...