Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not it is a crime, punishable by fine and imprisonment, to write a perfectly good check for less than $1, was the question submitted last week to U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi ("Rustic") Sargent...
...graceful dancing and tinkling song upon Pleasantville, Kan., where she works as a skimp-skirted waitress. The hero, disguised as a mere reporter, is in reality vice president of a rival film corporation. Love. In the end, everybody marries. The real show is "Peachy" Robinson (Joe E. Brown), rustic Sherlock Holmes. His sleuthing is most unaccountably absurd, occasions a fusillade of wisecracks. Actor Brown's mouth is the dentist's dream. Two human fists can enter here, wiggle around in the spacious cavity. Actor Brown makes full use of his natural asset. Altogether, a better than average entertainment...
Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France: "Rustic neighbors of my country estate at Cocherel saw my summer crop of wheat and oats burst mysteriously into flame one midnight last week. Summoned in haste the local fire department was unable to extinguish the blaze until several barns and outbuildings had flamed upward to the tune of 200,000 francs. I, who have been ten times Premier of France, said not long ago: 'I do not claim to know the difference between a stock and a bond, since I have never owned a sample of either.' My Socialist constituents...
Irate citizens of many a rustic four-corners have protested, in let- ters to the Times, the "Yankee-fied" methods of the Big Five Banks which have acquired and torn down numerous picturesque and ancient inns, hostels, pubs, and replaced them with modern sanitary bank premises...
...Next day, Mr. Coolidge pulled on his hip-boots, waded deep in the waters of Osgood River with rustic guides, Oscar Otis and Ormon Doty. The party returned after two hours with a dozen brook trout...