Word: rusticating
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Under the warm June sunlight the rich Pennsylvania farmlands unrolled in a vision of wealth that staggered the triumphant, barefoot Army of Northern Virginia. The invasion was a picnic. It was a combination of all the entertainments of rustic America-a horse race, a chicken fry (with requisitioned chickens), a parade-and the prizes were everything that the nation could offer...
Farmers in their Sunday best filed past the casket, in the front room of Ade's rustic nine-room house. They saw his study, piled high with curios-including a life-sized cardboard figure of his friend, Will Rogers, which had once stood in front of a theatre. The neighbors strolled out past the hickory tree where James Whitcomb Riley used to sit. They sat on folding chairs on the grass to hear funeral speeches. Many had been there before as neighborhood kids, invited to Mr. Ade's 430-acre place for picnics...
...thin, weather-beaten, unlettered farmer grubbing a living for his brood from 200 unproductive acres near Callander, Ont. He still farms the same soil (hay, oats, cattle), but only in a supervisory way. He wears neat business suits, has filled out, looks more urban than rustic. He is assertive now, aware of his responsibilities, no longer thrown off balance by publicity and whoop...
Billings and Baptists. In spite of Cousin Emmy's lack of schooling, she is an astute businesswoman who knows how to demand and get the top billing which her rustic showmanship deserves. Says she: "I know and can prove that I outdraw Pappy Cheshire [a rival hillbilly] or anybody else. So you just go ahead and put me on top of that there pile, where I belong." Murmured one radio engineer while Emmy and her "kinfolks" rattled the control-room windows: "She sure knows how to keep that program hopped up." A teetotaling, nonsmoking, unprofane Baptist, who forsakes parties...
...Business. Today the Gallowhur Chemical Co., in its rustic plant-by-a-waterfall in Windsor, Vt., not far from Bachelor Gallowhur's 2,000-acre farm, is producing Skat at the rate of 5,000,000 bottles a month. Among its big customers is the U.S. Coast Guard: shore-patrol horses are sprayed with Skat to repel sard flies...