Word: ruralization
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...which is more tiresome? watching one of the 57 Hollywood varieties of "daughters'' go straight to the Nether Octopus of Shame, via the bathing-revel and flask-party route or seeing one of them won away from rouge, the Ritz and high-hattiness in general by kittens, tame canaries, rural atmosphere and the sight of a pair of baby-rompers. But The Love Piker temporarily swings the weight of ennui in the latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued by the stalwart Martin Van Huisch first...
...seldom fatal to humans, but is accompanied by pains, septic fever lasting from three days to six weeks, prostration, swollen and suppurating lymph glands, and ulcers on the site of the bite, followed by several months of convalescence when the patient is unable to work. It is found in rural populations in harvest time. It has been mildly epidemic in Utah for five years, and cases have been reported from Cincinnati, Charlotte, N. C., and elsewhere...
...make Senator Lodge turn over in what his enemies describe as his political grave. The Federation is interested in graduate scholarships at Government expense for the international study of education; a World University; international school correspondence; unification of science; special international textbooks in history and civics; improvement of rural schools; world-wide health education; world peace through understanding as the ultimate goal of world education. It is fortunate that these heresies were promulgated in San Francisco rather than New York. How could the great patriotic principle of hatred of all Britishers, so dear to Mayor Hylan's educational heart...
...three states have let down the bars, six have moved forward toward perfection and prohibitions. But as the militant reactionaries point out, the three states which have retrogressed to more freedom are New York, Connecticut and Oregon with large and important populations; and conversely, the "good" states are mostly rural, thinly inhabited and poor fields for theatrical exploitation anyway...
...usual, the accomplished Mr. Ray is disclosed as a rural Romeo. The present production offers scope for his entire act and the Ray constituency will be quite contented with their rustic idol. Particularly effective is he in expressing embarrassment by pulling his toes...