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Word: crickneck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kentucky Mountain Fantasies the noisy "Funeralizing of Crickneck" is broad comedy which might have any superstitious community for setting, but "Napoleon Crossing the Rockies" is unique. A railroad representative tries to bully two old folks to sell their property. Steadfast as the Napoleon of their ditty they refuse this stranger's heap of gold, but sell to a suave acquaintance who gives the old woman a chain of gaudy beads, and the old man new strings for his fiddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Versions | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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