Word: rustication
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...doctor but his own instinct, and ordered his private cook to prepare for him the Spanish puchero-that pot which holds life's essentials for rich and poor alike, emblematic of the national well-being of a healthy people. A cabalistic piece of cookery, this gargantuan dish, a rustic circle of savors where each flavor suffers an elision in the interest of the whole, when cooked in Baltimore, without the typical chorizos and garbanzos, became a mere New England boiled dinner. Vexed, nostalgic Quezon dispatched both Dr. Estrada and Secretary Nieto to Washington to fetch the two puchero essentials...
...personal appearance" tour at which this play takes a look, Carole is accompanied by a cynical "press relations counsel" (Otto Hulette) who has been hired by President Fineberg to keep her out of man trouble. Her imported automobile breaks down near Wilkes-Barre at the home of a rustic family...
...years they were married. Lately he had begun to worry because of trouble with other Columbus truck drivers. Maybe, she thought, the time last year he bumped his head while unloading butter had something to do with his sudden talkativeness. She took him up to his parents' home at rustic little Edison a few miles north of Columbus...
Fifteen miles out of Cleveland is rustic, somnolent Berea (pop. 6.000) whose chief industry is Cleveland Quarries Co.. whose chief ornament is Baldwin-Wallace College, and whose chief glory is Raymond Moley. Three generations of Moleys have lived in or near Berea. From his native Berea went Raymond Moley to profess politics in Cleveland's Western Reserve University, to direct the Cleveland Foundation, to investigate crime in Ohio and in New York, to profess government and public law at Columbia University, to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's chief economic adviser, his chief Braintruster. his Assistant Secretary...
...order of Chancellor Hitler the S. A. boys were to turn in their uniforms July 1 and take a month's vacation. Already on vacation was Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm at his rustic snuggery near Munich. But in Berlin his sub-comrades kept pestering the Chancellor with demands that he dissolve the rival Stahl helm. Despite the fact that Storm Troopers hooted at Stahlhelm Leader Seldte and stoned his bodyguards a few weeks ago the Storm Troopers based their demand on the obscure stabbing of one of their district leaders by a Stahlhelm official in Pomerania...