Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lease made by President Harding's Secretary Albert Bacon Fall and renewed by President Coolidge's whilom Secretary Dr. Hubert Work. It was a lease which Senator Walsh of Montana, famed oil inquisitor, had suspected and asked to be investigated. President Coolidge had asked his Attorney-General, rustic John Garibaldi Sargent of Vermont, to investigate, last April. Now, in the pressure of the presidential campaign, it had popped out that the lease and its renewal were beyond doubt illegal and voidable. It was also apparent that Attorney-General Sargent had been withholding an adverse opinion until after Election...
...TIME and a follower of Luther, I take exception to having friend A smack friend B on the nose by calling him a "peasant" (TIME, Sept. 17, p. 9) for no reason which is obvious to the reader. The term is extremely misleading and smells too much of the rustic and ignorant as aptly to apply to a brilliant historic character...
...that he was born of and raised by and among simple peasants in lowly surroundings would be as absurd as denying that Jesus was the son of a village carpenter, that Saints Peter and Andrew were fishermen in a small way. TIME implied that there was much of the rustic though nothing of the ignorant about the saintly Great Reformer...
...Poem. Rustic Homer and urban Virgil used roundly to invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From...
...dining hall is separate, across the stream, by pine-needle path and rustic footbridge. Small owls and bears, wrought in bronze, light the way. In the dining-room, the furniture is heavy mahogany, carved with a cloverleaf pattern. The 14-foot table seats 30 people...