Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Successful with rustic Seth Parker on an NBC sustaining program, Author Lord last year wrote a script concerning "The Stebbins Boys," two elderly bachelors of Bucksport, Maine. In the same general rustic atmosphere as Seth Parker the Stebbins Boys manage their hotel and general store, act as a court of appeals for the village on all problems from political to amatory. A typical recent Stebbins dialog had to do with their beards. Suspected of being robbers at sea, they were told to take off their "disguises" by a Lieutenant McGee of the Coast Guard...
Selina and Moira run as far & wide over the farm as their nurse will permit. Rosie and Maidie Huggett, the farmer's daughters, who wear men's smocks and help pitch hay, are symbols of a rustic freedom to which the carefully "brought up" city girls aspire. But Selina and Moira have imaginative resources of which the envied farm girls do not dream. Out of their dolls and stuffed animals, which make up a kind of fairy conclave named "The Lodge," out of the hedgerow flowers, the old oast-houses, the picnics in Flatropers Wood there emerge...
...communal ideal was repugnant Emerson was an individualist. Intellectually the quiet minister of Concord was a swashbuckler whose doctrine his neighbors feared, but "the tone was so well-bred withal that much dangerous doctrine was overlooked for the manner of the presentation." Such was the man who swayed rustic and school-girl, scrub-woman and Thomas Carlyle: now he rests ignored by a busy world in the quiet grave at Concord...
...native-born Texan and a rustic who has never shot a gun, baited a hook, used tobacco in any form, or drunk anything stronger than Brazos water.''* Thus wrote the late President Samuel Palmer Brooks of Baylor University (Waco. Tex.) in his introduction to Battles for Peace, a collection of addresses by his good friend Pat Morris Neff. Many people might have doubted that such a Texan ever existed. Pat Neff not only existed but became Texas' Governor (1921-25). Well-known now is the story of how. hunting with a party which included the late William Jennings Bryan...
Chicago learned last week that there will be no opera this summer at Ravinia Park, rustic pleasure ground up the North Shore. Ravinia's genial patron, Louis Eckstein, is accustomed to bearing the greater part of each season's deficit; last year he and his wife made up $187,884 of the $279,829 loss. This year it has been possible to raise' only one-sixth of what is likely to be needed. But Patron Eckstein is cheerful. Said he: "One inactive season will not destroy Ravinia's prestige at home or abroad. . . . I believe that...