Word: rustications
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eloquent Michael Straus of the New York Evening Post) and hearing accounts of lavish personal and household expenditures in Florida (TIME, Oct. 19) the judge, the jury and the reporters had been treated to a detailed description of the rich raiment in which Gangster Capone clothed himself. Eleven rustic jurors and one from the city had listened, gaping, to witnesses who told about the $135 suits he bought by the half-dozen, the $27.50 shirts ordered by the dozen, the $20 hats & shoes, $150 overcoats, the 30 diamond belt buckles for which he had paid $275 each...
...midnight fortnight ago a sedan coasted up to the cemetery of rustic Fairmount, N. J. A woman and two men got out. The men were carrying something that looked like a small coffin. Close to the mound of a recent grave, the men dug a hole in which they placed their burden. The woman dropped a handful of earth on the new burial, wept as the men filled the hole. The three departed in the sedan...
Some 10,000 rustic souls, devoted to dairying, inhabit the lovely Ausable valley which runs 23" miles in a generally south-west direction from the city of Plattsburg, N. Y. Since 1894 Leonor Fresnel Loree's Delaware & Hudson Co. R. R. had served them well. The inhabitants told time by the train's whistle, their cows grazed contentedly as the locomotive chuffed uncertainly...
...writing, his wife's attempts to make him a social celebrity, her flirtations to arouse his jealousy. The novel tells of two Austro-Polish war-prisoners (Stanislaw, his friend Felix) sent to a Turkestan farm to help with the crops. The farm is owned and managed by no rustic curmudgeon but by a Polish girl, pretty and strong-willed Marusia. The prisoners spend pleasant months there, become members of a congenial family. Marusia falls in love with Stanislaw: it works both ways; before he can say knife he is back in the prison camp again, for Marusia has jealous...
...16th and 17th Centuries great preachers printed their sermons, which little preachers later read to their congregations. Thus were high thoughts diffused among rustic minds. Last week in Texas, a region hospitable to pulpit novelties,* was initiated a modernized version of such preserved preaching. Scene was the Woodland Heights Presbyterian Church, a small Houston congregation which important churchmen lack time to visit in person. To that little church the Division of Visual Aids of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education sent talking picture equipment. The machines reproduced the gestures and words of Dr. William Chalmers Covert, general secretary...