Word: hick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said 15-year-old Pamela Morrison, fresh from the gilded movie-palaces and milkshake counters of Rochester, N.Y.: "I'm going back to live in a house 500 years old-in a hick town...
Californiana. In Los Angeles, native daughter Ann Helen Trundle won a divorce from Edward Trundle on the grounds that he called Los Angeles a hick town...
Like the rubber billiard cue and the collapsible bicycle, the word Peoria has always been good for a laugh in vaudeville. Generations of hoofers and comedians used it to epitomize U.S. hick towns. But though Peoria, Ill. lies in the corn belt, it is a pretty big town (pop. 105,087). It is also a river town, and it grew up around a whiskey keg, not a cracker barrel. Last week, after a new city primary election, Peoria had occasion to remind itself of its free-&-easy tradition once again...
...term "G.I. Joe." Then from Santa Barbara, Calif., came a report that soldiers resented it, thought it patronizing. Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon gave his old-soldier version of the name: "For over 40 years a Joe has meant a Jasper, a Joskin, a yokel, a hey-rube, a hick, a clodhopper, a sucker." Runyon remembered that in the last war G.I. (i.e., "government issue") meant "the big galvanized iron garbage and ash can in the back of each company barracks...
...Hick." One of Hopkins' friends who has made a fortune as a judge of character has said of him: "Harry is a hick. Harry will always be a hick. He still gets a small-towner's thrill out of going to a New York nightclub and spotting famous people." Yet Harry Hopkins is certainly as sophisticated a hick as ever came down the road: the hayseed on him has charmed more notables than an ascot tie ever would have...