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Word: bumpkins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devil also became the butt of some of the first fine sallies of Yankee humor. One of them is an ancestor of a long posterity of country-bumpkin v. city-slicker witsnappers that pass current to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Looking Glass | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...natty dresser, named 1950's Worst Dressed Men of the World. Top of the list: Prince Aly Khan, for going to the races in yellow socks, orange shoes and a green tie. A close sec ond: Texas' Senator Tom Connolly (for looking "like a country bumpkin" while heading for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee). Runners-up: Manhattan Socialite Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (for not buying a new hat "in the last twelve years"); Wrestler Gorgeous George (chiefly for his peroxide curls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Arrivals & Departures | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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