Word: rusticating
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Irate citizens of many a rustic four-corners have protested, in let- ters to the Times, the "Yankee-fied" methods of the Big Five Banks which have acquired and torn down numerous picturesque and ancient inns, hostels, pubs, and replaced them with modern sanitary bank premises...
...Next day, Mr. Coolidge pulled on his hip-boots, waded deep in the waters of Osgood River with rustic guides, Oscar Otis and Ormon Doty. The party returned after two hours with a dozen brook trout...
Death sought last week a kindly and distinguished Canadian, just turned three score and ten, vacationing at Cedarhurst, his rustic estate on Lake Memphremagog, Quebec. Robert Stanley Weir, for 16 years Recorder of Montreal (1899-1915) was mourned by Canadians last week not because of his lifetime of public service and distinguished legal reputation but as the author of O Canada, the Canadian national song. Strictly speaking, Jurist Weir did not "write" O Canada but paraphrased and extensively altered into English an earlier version in French by Judge Routhier. The present version, chanted by Canadians on public occasions, is almost...
...surrounded by a merry group of girls from the University of Vermont, the First Lady's Alma Mater. "Hello, Sally," she said. "Why, Mary, is this your boy?" All then, including Mrs. Coolidge, joined in a hearty rendition of "Champlain," the U. of V. college song, after which rustic Attorney General Sargent joined the party...
...President returned from rustic Vermont to sylvan White Pine Camp. Aboard his special train, he forcibly but with dignity gave the impression of being displeased with aged M. Clemenceau's French debt comments...