Word: rusticity
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...Saratzeanu?" cried several flabbergasted representatives, and others indignantly moved for a temporary suspension of the session which the Speaker granted. In the interval the Cabinet retired into a second huddle and henchmen of the Prime Minister busily circulated among the rustic members of the Peasant Party, to explain that Constantin Saratzeanu was an honorable though inconspicuous rooster on the Rumanian Supreme Court bench...
...usual, the latest Mussolini birth occurred at Forli, the rustic farm in Northern Italy where Il Duce always spends his birthday (July 29) and also turns up seasonably to plow, seed, harrow and harvest his grain. Last week he was busy in Rome superintending the national harvest when a punctilious secretary an- nounced: "The child is a daughter, Your Excellency...
...cure the 46-year-old Tacna-Tacna pain in the left side of South America, statesmen of Chile and Peru met late one night last week in rustic, thatch-roofed Tacna City. At midnight they began to sign 138 peace-potent documents...
...inspection. On a plateau 2,500 ft. up in the mountains, they found scenes of lyric wilderness. They heard waterfalls that lulled the President to sleep (his own description), inspected the huge living room with its 51-ton stone fireplace, marveled at the urban conveniences in such a rustic setting...
...baby Prince. Such a trick is typical of King Alexander, would only work of course on a people as simple as his peasants. Time after time His Majesty has employed the old ruse with success. Notably he waited to proclaim himself Dictator until the onset of a rustic holiday which, for a week every year, renders most of the peasants in Jugoslavia convivially tipsy, broadly complacent at whatever their Serb King...