Word: ruralization
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...women in Washington tried to scotch the notion that Republican women are rich and always wear orchids. Said Mrs. James R. Arneill of Denver, Republican Clubwoman, of a recent rural meeting: "There wasn't a person there who had ever seen an orchid. They had chrysanthemums, though...
...Oklahoma, every farmer knows the Sooners' record. In the last two years they have not lost a game, except to Tennessee in the post-season Orange Bowl game last year. Last week every rural radio was tuned in to the Oklahoma-Missouri game at Columbia, Mo. Oklahomans wanted their beloved Sooners to stop Missouri's fabulous Paul Christman. Stop Christman they did, but discovered that his less publicized teammates were good too. By the margin of an unsuccessful kick (7-to-6), Oklahoma was nosed out of the undefeated ranks and the Big Six title...
...documents, drawled "Sure 'nough" and went on about his business. They tell of the time he spoke with quiet pride of his work as a reformer on the first modern U. S. income-tax bill back in 1913, while his audience-national planners, currency tinkerers, spenders-lenders, rural resettlementers, court reorganizers-could hardly keep their faces straight...
Long before Longfellow penned his verses about the village smithy, rural Englishmen were singing a hippety-hopping tune to the words...
...years small-town bankers have badgered their big-city brothers for more rural A. B. A. presidents. This year they got their candy. Wachovia is a small-town bank. But no hayseed is Wachovia's able President Hanes. As much at home in Wall Street as in Winston-Salem, he is a big-city banker in a small town...