Word: hick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wendell Brooks Phillips '15 has been fired from his beloved "Hick College." In the last issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Mr. Phillips describes his dismissal from the "Hick College" to which he had devoted "the most vigorous twenty years of his life." Continuing in his defeatist vein, he still praises Harvard whose liberal thought, inspiration, and thorough education cost...
...brother in the rain. There is something pathetic and yet faintly comic about her poor little deceptions and her bright efforts to make a go of it. And the whole business is done with restraint. The brother's clothes are just a little off without being ridiculous; his semi-hick manner of dancing is funny without being farce. When Alice is snubbed she is gently snubbed...
...Oklahoma farmband, Pinky Tomlin can look either forty or his actual twenties, depending on the camera used and the amount of re-touching. He was a professed hick and already losing his tin, flame-colored hair rapidly when Delta Tau Delta at the University of Oklahoma pledged him. That made no difference; the brothers hoped to tame their alfalfa cowboy. In the meantime, he went to work leading a college orchestra. That got him three meals day low grades, and a reputation for having a singing voice with a twang to it. In spite of the Delta, he remained...
...Clummerhorn, as game warden, arrests her for shooting out of season. By the time they are on their way to be married in the one car that has been concocted out of the two wrecks, everything that can be done with the situation of two people stranded in a hick town has been done, effortlessly and good-humoredly, with excellent results as entertainment. If It's a Small World invites comparison with It Happened One Night it need concede priority only in the use of its general structure. Its acrid inconsequent mood is its own. Wendy Barrie...
Oakie, who gets fatter, if not funnier, by the day, is cast as a well-meaning, self-important hick from Azusa, who discovers life and love in Greater Los Angeles. Side-kick Tracy is as tough and tight-lipped as ever, and seems just the kind of trouble-shooter you'd like to have fix your worst enemy's telephone. The pair offset each other nicely, and one is very glad that the girls they fall in love with are room-mates, because double weddings, even by a J.P., are such...