Word: rusticates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday, Dec. 24, so that munitions production would hum as usual on Monday, the 25th. Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool. He declined to take this advice. Aides said he might celebrate Christmas on the 25th at the Westwall with the troops. Last week rustic Nazi pagan neighbors of the Fuhrer at Berchtesgaden announced that on Christmas Eve they will gather on the mountain crags above his snuggery "to shoot guns and pistols to frighten away the spirits of darkness...
Goldmark: "Rustic Wedding" Symphony (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 10 sides). No symphonic architect. Composer Goldmark built pretty trellises and arbors. Conductor Barlow spruces up the most ambitious...
...leading across the Seine are being doubled and tripled in width to facilitate rapid evacuation. All Parisians whose work does not compel them to stay must leave the city for assigned villages when war breaks out. To avoid being billeted in barns the wise and wealthy have leased comfortable rustic retreats stocked with preserved food. If there is no war some families are going to become mighty tired of canned peaches...
Thus, according to reports which trickled from the countryside into Vienna last week, ended an archiepiscopal tour in which Cardinal Innitzer had twice been menaced before he reached Konigsbrunn. Unlike the storming of the Cardinal's palace last autumn (TIME, Oct. 17), the incidents in his rustic progress did not appear to have been stage-managed by Nazi leaders. But Cardinal Innitzer may have expected something of the sort. He has ceased flying a papal flag on his automobile, has had its license number changed. Last fortnight he ordered all priests, monks and nuns in his archdiocese to wear...
...bankers, sell their possessions for $18 to gyp agents, buy an ancient jalopy for $75 from racketeers, head out on Highway 66 for the land of plenty promised in a come-on California handbill. With them - the 13th passenger -goes lanky, philosophizing Preacher Casy, hillbilly Moses turned rustic socialist. Hero of the Joads is tall, homely son Tom, a paroled convict. Heroine is Ma Joad, strong, patient, dreaming of "a white house with oranges growin' around...