Word: rustication
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...those who can stand the comparatively hard labor involved by work on farms." Clearly this astute policy keeps pesky little "pale faces" off Brazilian streets where they might cause resentment, insures a pleasant welcome and gainful employment to big, brown, burly Japs willing to work and multiply in rustic obscurity...
...enthusiasm caught from the great humanists of his period. Some time later he abandoned both science and the humanities to play the monk at the Abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, a Paradise, he said, of healthfulness, amenity, serenity, delight and all honest pleasures of agriculture and rustic life. . . . But Rabelais could not remain in a Paradise, any more than Eve; like her he was too full of curiosity. Chastised for heresy and impiety, accused of Calvinism, drunkenness and gluttony, he retained his influence with a sufficient number of cardinals and bishops to acquire two curacies near Paris. Bored...
Today he is 35, 5 ft. 7 in. in height, already portly. His chin is dimpled, his cheeks cherubic, his eyes small and brown, his hair a wavy reddish brown - and his tongue a restless lance of dispute and invective. Still rustic in manner, if not in thought, he keeps the countryman's water bucket and gourd dipper prominently displayed in the executive offices. To win his election he promised the state's farmers paved roads, free hospitals, free school books. As governor he spent money like an Osage Indian on a spree to fulfill these pledges, soon...
...west by south of Washington, upon which a presidential fishing lease was arranged; 2) a tract of 1,500 acres known as Catoctin Manor, 50 miles north of Washington, watered by Hunting Creek. This tract (but not the Manor House) was purchased in the name of Lawrence Richey. A rustic cabin will be built to receive President Hoover and his intimates...
Attorney General in President Coolidge's cabinet is John Garibaldi Sargent, huge, rustic, wise friend and onetime neighbor of Mr. Coolidge in Vermont. His first assistant is kinetic Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, who last week whisked away from magic Washington to New Mexico, there to wrestle with the Mexican boundary problem. He went happy, gay and debonair because a little bird had told him he would be Attorney General when, soon, Vermonters Coolidge and Sargent had retired into history. Though nothing more than a bird would stand sponsor for this piquant prediction...