Word: hick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First rumors reached the CRIMSON through Hick's friends and members of the Young Communist League. A New York official of the Communist Party confirmed the rumor, and later in the day it was learned from the New Masses that Hicks had broken with the publication...
...Webster, Mass, tavern, beefy Bundster Fritz Kuhn (already under indictment charged with filching Bund funds) had words with a policeman, who promptly tossed him into jail. Next morning Police Chief John Templeman released him on $54 bail, snapped: "He was just another wise guy who thought this was a hick town and he could stage one of them beer hall putsch things and be the dictator...
...Hick's latest book is far from Complacent; the author's highly trained imagination has enabled him to visualize millions of Americans whose existence is not idyllic, whose income is not adequate, who have little reason to like America. It is this part of this book which is the most provocative...
Against his objective data Dr. Thorndike matched his own earlier guesses and the ratings by 280 preachers, educators, social workers and businessmen. All of them, including Dr. Thorndike, were wrong. They overvalued size, the presence of eminent men, and externals, undervalued "hick" towns...
...expound the doctrines, the solid liberal doctrines of Barrett Wendell and LeBaron Russell Briggs to Methodists and Baptists? The trouble with him is that he pays too much attention to the danni Yankees.' Yes, it is well that Wendell Brooks Phillips '15 has been fired from his beloved "Hick College," the college whose first Trustee was his father, the college into which he was born and aiming at which he was reared and educated. It is well that Phillips is fired because now he has told the world that Demorest, Georgia will not tolerate any of these new-fangled thrinkers...