Word: cracker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chatty half-hour broadcast was over, Cope had worked up an appetite for a heaping platter of fried eggs, sausages and hot biscuits, washed down by more coffee and bourbon. Then he settled down to write his daily newspaper column, "Channing Cope's Almanac," in the same breezy, cracker-barrel fashion in which he talks...
Married. Fuller Warren, 43, Florida's camera-conscious, "cracker boy" Governor; and Barbara Manning, 23, blonde California secretary; he for the third time; in Los Angeles...
...most beautiful model in New York") spend their winters in Patchen Place, a tree-lined Greenwich Village alley, and their summers at Silver Lake, N.H., where most of the poet's paintings are conceived. At 54 he is a wry, wiry Yankee with the gentle discursiveness and cracker-barrel wit of a farmer taking his ease at the store. Writing about his own mild, middle-of-the-road paintings in the current Art News, Cummings sideswiped most of his fellow artists, abstractionists and realists alike, in a single sentence...
...still head coach of the varsity football, basketball and baseball teams, still bats out grounders before a big game. (Another interest: driving one of his three trotters in one of his eleven buggies.) He presides at his daily student assemblies; is always full of campus news and cracker-barrel advice ("The hills are changing color again. Be sure to look"). He still holds Sunday vespers, beaming when the boys sing "real loud." In campus affection he has only one rival: his wife Helen, who teaches chemistry and algebra, and is always ready with cocoa when boys drop around...
Short on plot, Canyon is long on curry-combs and pancake. Most of the principals, both two-legged and four-legged, look as sleek and dustless as the population of a dude ranch. To give their implausible doings a sagebrush flavor, the dialogue is spiked with labored cracker-barrel idioms, e.g., Ann is "pretty as a blue-nosed trout," another character as "crazy as popcorn on a hot stove." No one but the popcorn addicts and the very young will mistake Canyon for anything but a dull movie...