Word: hick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emerging from court, Courtney Rogers remarked to his court-appointed attorney: "You're not such a hick lawyer after...
...need a big hick on your editorial staff...
Taken from the stage play of the same name, "My Sister Eileen" is a good impression of a hick's impression of New York. There are several other characters scattered throughout the picture: a dashing young executive, a dull young executive, a troup of Latin-American Naval Cadets, and an arty janitor, each in his place and doing wonders with a good story...
Glenn Taylor toured the State 15 years ago with a tent show, playing hick dramas to hick audiences. But he boasts that he made better money campaigning for Senator in 1940 (when he won the Democratic nomination but lost the election to Republican John Thomas for the late, great William Borah's seat) than he ever did in show business...
...Goldwyn's hired hands have worked hard to give us a new slant on the old hick-meets-city-girl situation. This version has Gary Cooper as a musty grammarian who goes to the masses in search of live vernacular. Inevitably, he meets Barbara Stanwyck, who is a night-club warbler with Gene Krupa's orchestra. She talks a Hollywoodish brand of slang that will leave even the boys from Lindy's open-mouthed...