Word: hinterland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance you would indicate the McCormick house as follows: "Here's where Edith McCormick entatains drammer enthusiasts of the hinterland...
Assuredly we here in the Hinterland feel amply compensated for our rustic, pastoral and sylvan solitude by having Roxy's strains of symphony on the dial while, unfolded on an easy porchchair we are viewing the flow of world events so amazingly well presented in dashing chiaroscuro by TIME...
...each sport. It is dangerous because it may not be true. And if Harvard were accused of something that was not true, and accused by a university they refer to as "one of our better provinces," the resultant reaction might be a race riot between Harvard students and the hinterland. In all events, Harvard, would be fortifying her athletic record, which of late has been none too rosy...
...play, when the entire cast ap pears. Emphasis is on the play, with known and unknown actors striving and sharing alike except as to salary. The result of these policies, maintained by hard work and patience, has been the discovery of the fact that the U. S., including the hinterland, will clap hands for fine drama as loudly as it does for good circuses, jazz bands, leg shows. Rockbound is about a salty family caught in the fishnets of circumstance on the Maine coast. Maw and Paw Higgins derive no poetic ecstacies from their native rocks and waves, but they...
...water, living largely off the country, under constant exposure to whatever 'dangers' to health there might be, we did not have a single day's illness." However, because of the complete ignorance of the natives of hygiene, and the fact that there are only three physicians in the whole hinterland, the population is likely to decrease rather than to increase. Mr. Schwab thinks that the country may once have held a million inhabitants but that 800,000 would now be a liberal estimate...