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...England, he undid his safety straps and reached again. Unintentionally he pressed the control stick forward. The plane stalled with a start and an astonished flier found himself catapulted into midair. With presence of mind he pulled his parachute cord, landed unhurt, lighted a cigaret, and addressed a gaping rustic: "I wonder where my kite's gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Fliers: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...knot of rustic, humble hillmen edged timidly, last week, through the massive gate of that onetime palace in which now resides M. Gaston Doumergue, the pink-complexioned, affable, astute bachelor President of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rankling Abuse | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

SOUTHERN CHARM-Isa Glenn -Knopf ($2.50). There are few more ludicrous members of the U. S. population than the garrulous women who stray from rustic homes below the Mason & Dixon Line into the complicated excitements of Northern metropolitanism, there to stand, like cats in the rain, meowing about their cousins, Southern courtesy, and Robert E. Lee. These women are a small class; but they are a class which may be stamped upon vigorously, with the hobnailed heel of satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Impudence | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...Post author, and such he always will be. Unfortunately, I say, because at times he rises to a certain height. His descriptions of the Maine countryside are better than the usual pretty twitterings spent on that subject, and, better still, he has breathed the breath of life into his rustic heroine, and really evolved a figure with the classic serenity of a modern Ceres...

Author: By R. B. Gowing, | Title: IMMORTAL LONGINGS. By Ben Ames Williams. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1927. $2.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...Girls Wanted?A lily-white yet amusing comedy of rustic simplicity triumphant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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