Word: rustication
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Horace Pippin (TIME, Jan. 29, 1940), a disabled Negro war veteran who paints gaily colorful flower pieces and rustic scenes in his native Pennsylvania...
...beginning to look more and more like an American Indian, easily walks off with The Great American Broadcast. That is no feat. One tuneful ditty, I Take to You, some tasty hoofing by the Nicholas Brothers (colored), adequate vocalizing from blonde, lymphatic Alice Faye, are no match for the rustic mugging of an Oakie. Adept at using his nimble hands to take the action away from another cinemactor, he has a field day fiddling with the radio dials that clutter up The G.A.B...
...This year Art was the big news, because last year Sociologist John Barton and Painter John Steuart Curry had started something when they put on show some 60 paintings, wood carvings and whittled knickknacks created by Wisconsin farmers and their wives. This year, even after the show had opened, rustic painters from the backwoods continued to arrive, toting rolls of canvas and bits of wood. One of them, Walter Thorpe of Baraboo, Wis., shyly unrolled two laboriously drawn pictures entitled Rattlesnake and Covey of Quail. Painter Curry was Impressed, hung them both immediately...
Young Eli Whitney developed his mechanical skill in the rustic smithies which forged muskets for General Washington's troops. But when peace came, folk expected their new Confederation to become a great nation through the inventions of lawyers, not of tinkerers. So, despite his gift for whittling and smithing, Eli went to Yale College where he studied mathematics, then to Georgia to teach school and study law. He lived on the plantation of General Nathanael Greene's charming widow. She urged her whittling friend to devise a machine for cleaning cotton. Author Burlingame thinks that any Yankee tinkerer...
...good many Britons cheerfully called a "Blitzmas Card." Sold in the shops like hot cakes were many reading "Wishing You Anything But A Jerry Christmas!" Other humorists sent imitation ration cards, but most Britons sent the traditional type of Christmas card, as did Queen Mary, who chose again a rustic flower garden and quaint cottage. But this year Her Majesty's greeting read, "There'll always be an England...