Word: rusticity
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...perhaps she never loved the tutor; such was the anxiety of the adapters to provide a happy ending that the spectator is left undecided. When handsome Conrad Nagel as the tutor drives away and Miss Gish elopes with Rod La Rocque, the entire cast seems satisfied. Best shot: a rustic politician reading his address of welcome to the visiting prince...
...China today, despite a food shortage in the southwestern part. His hobbies are not women, whiskey, opium or even gold; but good roads, silkworm culture, soldiers for defense, police to preserve order, and the development of superior cattle, horses, plows, poultry, fertilizers?all things of direct benefit to his rustic people...
...steppes. Into a poverty in which peasants sleep with roaches running across their faces, and chop their houses in half when a family splits up, and plough, lacking a horse or an ox, with a cow in the traces, the Commune brings mowing machinery and a cream separator. Bold rustic humor finds rich material in the wedding of Fomka, the communal bull, for which the whole village turns out in Sunday clothes. Gathered in front of a barn gate, waiting the entry of Fomka's flower-wreathed bride, the crowd repeats "here she comes" but the first creature to come...
...dark features like an Indian's. This resemblance is heightened by his straight black hair, now greying on the edges, which, parted in the middle, falls heavily over each temple. His face is lined, his mouth heavy. His bright unseeing eyes look normal. His clothes are dark and rustic; he wears white wash ties...
...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...