Word: rustication
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...little in common with the more typical energy of such men as Sandburg. The plot of the masque is of little consequence, and consists of a series of wrangles by a group of characters fancifully entitled Rabbot, Porcupine, Fox, etc., about inconsequential topics and the efforts of Thalia, the Rustic Muse, to restore peace. Around this outline are massed a series of natural descriptions, almost everyone of which is filled with this longing for solitude and repose...
Assuredly we here in the Hinterland feel amply compensated for our rustic, pastoral and sylvan solitude by having Roxy's strains of symphony on the dial while, unfolded on an easy porchchair we are viewing the flow of world events so amazingly well presented in dashing chiaroscuro by TIME...
...young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert. When he arrived at a white, two-story, shingled house, surrounded by towering trees, thick shrubs, he turned in at its gate. North Haven townsfolk had told him this was the summer home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow; that the blue-shirted rustic hoeing in the garden was Caretaker Hubert O. Grant. Quietly the young man approached the caretaker, spoke: "Good morning, sir. I'm sick. The doctor has told me to stay outdoors. Can you give me a job?" As down-Easters will, Caretaker Grant answered in few words, nodded, handed...
...ever saw the Hoover home at Palo Alto or on S Street knows Mrs. Hoover's fondness for verandas and terraces. Back of the White House, not far from her husband's medicine-ball-ground, Mrs. Hoover has had laid out a flagstoned retreat among the trees, with rustic chairs against a shrubbery background. Nearby a special flowerbed has been turned, prepared and planted. Mrs. Hoover supervises the gardener but seldom trowels herself...
...Mock. Other May festivals are at Emporia, Kan., Bangor, Me., Springfield and Lynn, Mass., Keene, N. H., Newark, N. J. June opens the summer opera season at St. Louis-light opera favorites such as The Chocolate Soldier, The Bohemian Girl. On June 22 begins the famed summer season at rustic Ravinia Park, near Chicago, with Impresario Louis Eckstein giving a classical repertoire with Metropolitan Opera stars until Labor Day. July. The twelfth season of outdoor concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, The Bronx, N. Y., starts July 5, lasting until August 30 under Conductors Willem van Hoogstraten and Albert Coates...