Word: rustic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple, believing rustic was dragged away, the "Son of Heaven" looked down compassionately through spectacles, from his great Louis XIV State Coach. Above the gorgeous vehicle a golden phoenix perched with wings spread-symbol of divine and inextinguishable Radiance. If the little slant-eyed man in spectacles really believes that he can talk with his Divine Ancestress Amaterasu-0-Mikami-as he is supposed to do several times a year-the farmer's plea must have stirred in His Majesty strange emotions...
...three founders of Princeton (where Dr. Osborn later studied and taught); Jonathan Sturges was a president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Osborn has an able younger brother. William Church Osborn, 66, Manhattan lawyer and director of rich corporations. William Church was born in rustic Chicago where an Osborn was only a man. Henry Fairfield was born in rural Fairfield, Conn., where an Osborn was decidedly an institution...
...Antarctica. He, his scientists and able seamen were aboard the bark City of New York. There was no breeze flirting down Dunedin's forested mountains to tap-tap her sails; so her mateship the steamer Eleanor Boiling hauled her down the narrow Otago Inlet like a puffing rustic leading his wench through a lane...
...eminent naturalist (Dr. Horniday) tells of a duck disappointed with prohibition, who retired to the desert. Selecting a suitable giant cactus, she shoved out the woodpecker tenants and moved in. It was cool and comfortable, had running water in every room. In this rustic solitude she spent her declining years. On summer evenings she might have been observed sitting by an open window, her bright green head thrust out in an attitude of expectancy, a sharp eye peeled for passing worms and unsuspecting bugs...
Prominent among rustic oddities displayed was a small, red brick cottage just completed by the Chancellor, who has personally laid each brick. All through the summer he has troweled vigorously, whenever he could snatch the time, assisted by his hodcarrying daughters, Sarah, Diana. By thus bricklaying, smart "Winnie" Churchill has achieved two objectives. His embonpoint is somewhat reduced; and. what with elections coming on, he has reaped much vote-getting publicity among the myriads of laboring Britons who have seen him troweling and slathering mortar in the "picture papers." Since the whimsical Chancellor has actually carried his stunt...