Word: hick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Simon Willard, one of the founders was apparently the first to build on the site where the shovels are now digging. He located in 1634 where later the Hick's house was to stand. On the other corner of the area, another more eminent man settled directly opposite Dudley's home, the site of which is marked by a polished granite slab on the corner of Dunster and South. This prominent person was John Bridge, whose statue now stands so commandingly on the Cambridge Common. Bridge was a public man of ability, serving as selectman, school supervisor, deacon...
...Hick Jacet...
...education maintained and the methods used by the well-known masters. Rather, with the name of each man, is told the works he brought forth, the extent of his note and authority in the nation at large, and his popularity with the students or perhaps, his reserve. His campus hick name, his mannerisms, his students form the mainstay of the biographical portions of the narrative. Nevertheless, in speaking of Eliot, of Wendell of Charles Eliot Norton and of others like these, it was impossible to omit all reference to their educational tenets to refrain from mentioning the main features...
When, however, they turned to higher animals, strange deformities were noticed. In commenting on this Professor Parker stated that it must be expected that in abnormal processes one often receives distorted results. When an embryo hick which was fertilized in this manner by the radiation of the ultra violet rays started to develop it was round that it grew to have only one eye and its heart was broken into a number of separate pieces, each one of which palsated independently...
...Mencken may now add to his list of people who huggermug, who boob, hick and wowse, those who go abroad sensing scents to censor. Certain persons walk about Broadway with their noses in the air, suiffing ozone that is impregnated with biology, straightaway expunge the biology, and go rejoicing on their righteous way. They discover for instance, that The Virgin Man has become The Captive of Sex, and proceed to straighten out the triumverate in a manner that leaves the principles chastened and shamed, and the producers in a state of elation at the success of their little drama...