Word: rustications
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...penurious lover. Lydia is in care of the imposing, loquacious Mrs. Malaprop, who moves with the majesty of a beribboned frigate and boggles the English tongue in a way which has become literary legend. Transfixed with astonishment, she cries: "I am putrified!" Then there is Bob Acres, a rustic rival for Lydia's hand whose gentlemanly pretensions nearly involve him in a duel with...
...good advice about her worthless husband, and once even bites off the lobe of that worthy's ear in her defense. Mulliver is already committed to a farmer's lass; the housekeeper and her brutal husband disappear; the converted grocer marries the girl. It is a pleasantly rustic idyll, with enough quaint dialect to tickle good humor, just enough "real life" to emphasize the idyll...
...Stride. General Electric Co. announced last week that it has begun to build at Schenectady, N. Y., the four largest hydroelectric generators in the world, each rated at well over 100,000 horsepower, all to be installed in early 1932 on the Dnieper River near Zaporozhe in the fertile, rustic Ukraine. Together the quadruple battery of titanic machines will supply enough power to light three million average homes...