Word: rustication
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Louis Eckstein, retired publisher of Red Book and Blue Book, patron of rustic summer opera at Ravinia Park, 111., announced Ravinia's 1930 deficit: $241,000, largest in 19 years. Patron Eckstein's share: $139,107.20, other patrons making up the balance. Cost what it may, so long as he lives, Mr. Eckstein said, there will be opera at Ravinia...
...German government feared a Putsch, its leaders hid their emotions well. Both President von Hindenburg and his protege, Prime Minister Brüning (whose Catholic Centre party gained seven seats in the election) ended the week by going off for a rustic, post-election rest...
...merchants. He is editor of the Woodstock bulletin, a journal of Woodstock's art votaries,? therefore chief spokesman and defender of the colonists against "the hypocritical piety of Christians." When, at the 1929 Maverick an anonymous fiat from a "Committee of Fifty" warned that offenders against Woodstock's rustic peace would be summarily dealt with by the Law, Editor Clough did some quiet investigating. Raucously in the next bulletin he exposed the "Committee of Fifty" as being only Four, gleefully he named names...
...over the moving prow, exclaimed: "I christen thee Excalibur." Declared the first lady: "I got a real thrill when my hand touched the bow of that powerful vessel." Later in the week at Camp May Flather near Harrisonburg, Va. Mrs. Hoover broke an ivy rope, presented a 100-ft. rustic bridge across North river to the girl scouts (to whom she is "Buffalo...
Discerning Americans are learning that the U. S. has a musical institution quite as deserving of pilgrims from afar as Germany's annual Wagner festival at Bayreuth or the famed Opera at Paris (lately mediocre indeed) or La Scala at Milan (which badly misses Conductor Arturo Toscanini). To rustic Ravinia on Chicago's North Shore (20 mi. out) go more and more visitors each year, to hear what is easily the best summer opera to be found anywhere in the world...