Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the green-coated police of Berlin detected and waylaid a package addressed to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, Doorn, Holland. The package was about the proper bulk and proportions to contain a cartwheel. Was Wilhelm building a rustic cart? Had he found the wheels too much...
...double-tongued chirpings, jumping this way and that like crickets in a hot hayfield," always sniffing and listening around metaphysical corners for God. John Cowper Powys now and again casts his sterile chill. And there are other Powyses?a wisp of a mother, a "lovely seagull" sister, a rustic brother who dwells in "the divine oblivion of cider and ditch-digging, of making bulls leap cows, and bringing foals into the world...
...would have carried her off to South America, sent Victor to Harvard, petted him when he flunked out and came home to loaf, feet on fender, in wait for a suitable business position and in self-pitying anguish over the rebuff a New York bud had given his rustic advances. While the rest of the country freed the slaves, built fortunes, warred with Spain, the Campions were claimed by frustration, poverty and middle...
This incident, I think, illustrates a sad truth, that until these Freshman hoodlums have a little of their rustic training beaten out of them, Harvard indifference cannot be attained. Would it not be possible for such bumpkins as the Freshman Pajama Night promoters to go to some college where they can obtain more backing for their boobishness than they can here. Mark Howe...
...pulverizing, and the more so because the tale in which the hideous deed is done is a first rate piece of story telling in itself, keenly alive, and crowded with imaginative touches. The thing is studded with gems of Rabelaisian understatement, and it moves with a gallop of rustic passion...