Word: ruralization
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Throughout the U. S., suburban residents have been complaining this year of what amounts to a squirrel plague, while rural citizens bemoan that squirrels are near extinction. Naturalists explain that pothunters and automobiles have slain thousands over the countryside, while squirrels in close city trees and garrets are zealously, fondly protected...
...must go on, and our heroine resigns herself to a crescendo of debauchery, involving no end of Hispanos, black tights, snap-shots of the Rivierra, and scenes which must be familiar to every movie goer. As Miss Chatterton lights her twenty-fourth cigarette, by actual count, in a pleasant rural district with a cow, a goat, a horse (property of Paramount Picture Corporation), in strides Paul Lukas, with his easel under one arm. Mutual infatuation. Complications, of a very simple nature...
...small postal jobs for friends, took their money as contributions to his deficit. For this he was caught, indicted. On trial at Evansville last week he admitted that one Walter Ayer had given him $750 and that he had recom- mended Ayer's son Gresham for a rural carriership, that he had received $800 from another source and procured the postmanship at Dale for S. Grant Johnson. But he insisted these receipts were not bribes. The Government prosecutor produced pin-pricked $100 bills used to trap Rowbottom. When after two hours' deliberation the jury found him guilty on four counts...
...things get started too slowly. Several dozen U.S. flags, tons of dynamite, miles of barbed wire, thousands of tin hats, intended to galvanize the horror into realistic terms, merely become constituents as familiar and therefore as unnoticeable as the advertisements for grain and hardware, on the backdrops of rural vaudeville houses. Best sequences: James Gleason, henpecked husband of a knife-thrower, telling why he went...
...Brunswick, Ga.), U. S. Consul in Calais, France; C. C. Alleyne (born in the West Indies), Bishop of the New York district of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; Thomas M. Campbell, who received last January one of the Harmon awards ($400 and a gold medal) in Farming & Rural Life...