Word: rustication
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...eminent naturalist (Dr. Horniday) tells of a duck disappointed with prohibition, who retired to the desert. Selecting a suitable giant cactus, she shoved out the woodpecker tenants and moved in. It was cool and comfortable, had running water in every room. In this rustic solitude she spent her declining years. On summer evenings she might have been observed sitting by an open window, her bright green head thrust out in an attitude of expectancy, a sharp eye peeled for passing worms and unsuspecting bugs...
...lease made by President Harding's Secretary Albert Bacon Fall and renewed by President Coolidge's whilom Secretary Dr. Hubert Work. It was a lease which Senator Walsh of Montana, famed oil inquisitor, had suspected and asked to be investigated. President Coolidge had asked his Attorney-General, rustic John Garibaldi Sargent of Vermont, to investigate, last April. Now, in the pressure of the presidential campaign, it had popped out that the lease and its renewal were beyond doubt illegal and voidable. It was also apparent that Attorney-General Sargent had been withholding an adverse opinion until after Election...
Prominent among rustic oddities displayed was a small, red brick cottage just completed by the Chancellor, who has personally laid each brick. All through the summer he has troweled vigorously, whenever he could snatch the time, assisted by his hodcarrying daughters, Sarah, Diana. By thus bricklaying, smart "Winnie" Churchill has achieved two objectives. His embonpoint is somewhat reduced; and. what with elections coming on, he has reaped much vote-getting publicity among the myriads of laboring Britons who have seen him troweling and slathering mortar in the "picture papers." Since the whimsical Chancellor has actually carried his stunt...
...TIME and a follower of Luther, I take exception to having friend A smack friend B on the nose by calling him a "peasant" (TIME, Sept. 17, p. 9) for no reason which is obvious to the reader. The term is extremely misleading and smells too much of the rustic and ignorant as aptly to apply to a brilliant historic character...
...that he was born of and raised by and among simple peasants in lowly surroundings would be as absurd as denying that Jesus was the son of a village carpenter, that Saints Peter and Andrew were fishermen in a small way. TIME implied that there was much of the rustic though nothing of the ignorant about the saintly Great Reformer...