Word: rustication
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...Cardinal Hayes spends his summers in a rustic snuggery in the Catskills maintained by Dominican nuns. Once, roaming alone through nearby woods, he encountered a band of hooded Ku-Kluxers. The Cardinal muttered a prayer to his namesake St. Patrick. When a Ku-Kluxer lifted his hood it was to say that they were lost, and would he please tell them the way out of the woods. Out of this incident the amiable Cardinal made a little homily to the effect that just so does the True Church lead unbelievers from the woods. New York Catholics call their archbishop...
...outgoing United Farmers Cabinet of Premier Reid had been so utterly routed that their party failed to win a single seat, but these rustic Radicals departed with the satisfaction of knowing that they had presented Premier Aberhart, whom they consider still more radical, with a virtually bankrupt provincial treasury and a run on the provincial savings banks which had been ordered last week to pay nothing for the present to depositors...
...sexual side, the Midway offered such attractions as a "jungle show" with some lions, "Percilla" the Monkey Girl and John Dillinger's father. In a permanent Old Mill shy bumpkins could kiss their rustic belles in the dark...
...Still on vacation in his rustic Bavarian snuggery, Adolf Hitler last week took time off from such joys as listening to the village accordionist (see cut) to commute a death sentence for the first time since he became Realmleader. With German judges now officially expected to cut their decisions in psychic accord with Herr Hitler's mental patterns (see above), interest had been keen as to what he would do in the case of one Wilhelm Keim, a youth sentenced to have his head chopped off for murdering his sweetheart. Commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment last week...
With Roman temperatures averaging 77° last week and likely to go higher in August and September, 78-year-old Pope Pius XI directed his household to make ready to move out this week for a two-month stay at Castel Gandolfo. the rustic papal snuggery in the Alban Hills...