Word: rustications
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiery Fury. Governor Murray spruced up for the occasion. His lean wrinkled face had been shaved. His mop of thick greying hair was carefully combed. He wore a clean white shirt and his blue suit was pressed. Those who went to Collinsville to see a rustic figure in mismatched clothes and red suspenders were disappointed. But there was no disappointment in the fiery fury of the Murray speech. He began, as usual, by harking back to his early days when he was "born in a cotton patch during a November snowstorm; rocked in the cradle of adversity; chastened by hardship...
...must have plenty of fat pork as "an internal lubricant." He likes his vegetables underdone.* Only Mrs. Murray understands the proper preparation of what he calls his victuals. This diet, however, has kept him spry and supple. He can still stand on his head to amuse a rustic crowd. At his inauguration an old-fashioned ball was held at the Capitol and the Governor gave an animated performance of the "Kitchen Sweat," with the guests stomping and clapping...
...second was Percy Edwards Quin, 59, of McComb City, Miss. A rustic wit, he was famed for voting more or less as he pleased on minor issues, for tearing off his collar and salting his throat while engaged in debate and for smoking a pipe on the House floor, against strict rules. A Congressman for almost 19 years, he had chairmanned the Military Affairs Committee since the Democrats organized the 72nd Congress...
Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy) and a committee of writers belonging to the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners went to bloody Harlan County, Ky. to investigate coal miners' woes. At Pineville rustic detectives said they saw Investigator Dreiser and one Marie Pergain, blonde secretary attached to the party, go into Dreiser's room. The sleuths propped toothpicks against Investigator Dreiser's door. When they came back next morning, they said, the toothpicks were still in place. Investigator Dreiser, 60, and his friend were indicted for adultery. Mr. Dreiser left Kentucky, protested his innocence, backed...
Sucking a coughdrop, Alphonse Capone faced Judge James Herbert Wilkerson in Chicago's Federal Court last week. Snorkey was nervous. Fortnight ago a jury eleven-twelfths rustic had found him guilty of failing to pay an income tax during the years 1924-28, had decided he feloniously "attempted to evade & defeat" payment during three of those years. Now he was to be sentenced. As a concession to the solemnity of the occasion he had left off his jewelry, was wearing a comparatively sober pinchback suit of blue. He fondled a bandaged right fore-(trigger)-finger, sucked and sucked...