Word: rusticating
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...nondescript structure of rustic thatch pitched amid jungle creepers on the upper reaches of South America's great, turgid Amazon the authority and prestige of the League of Nations have been held higher than anywhere else on earth for exactly one year...
...whom had developed colds, to live with friends. And Papa Ovila Dionne, who forgot to shave, wandered about, weeping: "Five of them. . . . I'm the sort of man they should keep in jail. . . . No bigger than my thumb . . . five more! ... I am not strong." Unsympathetic were his rustic French-Canadian friends, who chaffed him roundly, not neglecting to remind him that Ovila means ''little...
...worship the great Hepburn, this picture is very acceptable; but those who prefer a well rounded story with balanced presentation will be unsatisfied. Miss Hepburn, whose Hollywood career has been what they call "dynamic," finds a role that is still different from any of her others in the rustic lass of the Tonnessee mountains, who merits the name "Trigger" and the picture's title, "Spitfire...
Will Rogers, with his homely aphorisms and rustic personality, brings to life on the screen an almost classic character. In the role of the New England horsetrader and village banker in the nineties, he dominates the picture with his ingenuous humor...
University of Maine is tucked away 68 mi. up the Penobscot River at rustic Orono (pop.: 3,400), eight miles above Bangor. It started out in 1868 with twelve students and two teachers as a State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts. By 1897 the school had added a college of arts & sciences and was ready to call itself a university. A College of Law founded in 1898 expired in 1920. A School of Education was launched in 1930. Maine's chief distinction is still in its College of Agriculture & Forestry and a College of Technology which Maine men like...