Word: hick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rotund Tennessean takes considerable pressure off his squad by assuming it himself. Hickman has been in New Haven for only half a year and is fast becoming a legend. His prodigious appetite, his great girth, the license plate that says "HICK," and the famous stories about the folks back home all eat up news inches, while the Yale team forges ahead undisturbed by the intense light of relentless publicity...
...also in the west - at the California Institute of Technology, to which they had been pulled by such powerful magnets as Robert Millikan and Richard Tolman. Oppenheimer recognized that CalTech had a great deal to offer. At that time, by contrast, the University of California seemed to have "a hick school of science." Both wanted him ; he arranged to oscillate between...
Begone, Bulk Purchase, heavy-handed hick, Who still suppose that you can do the Trick. The nimble thousands, dodging here and there, Confused the foes and made the Market fair: But when your tall gross figure comes to town They all at once combine to do you down. Begone, Economist: no more profess To play with Cheeses as you play at Chess. . . . Come, lovely Chaos: come, the Bad Old Days, Before the Wise Men watched about our ways, When Ministers had not enraged the Sun, Not much was Planned but many things were Done...
...slop out a lot,' says Lena." "Somebody Loses." The characters in Chet Shafer's guileless anthology are seldom the local boys who made good. Some of his Rotarian fellow townsmen, who dislike his stuff because it makes Three Rivers out to be the queen of hick towns, have on occasion asked the Journal to throw him out. Chet dislikes them just as much. Says he: "Rotary ruins little towns like this. Gives them big-town ideas. Commerce! Progress! Whenever there's progress, somebody loses." Most of his characters come from the pinochle-playing crowd that hangs...
Most of what acting is required is adequately handled by Helen Carew and Charles Middleton as the wife and her farmer, any by Charles Burrows, in the only true comic characterization, as Uncle Walt, the perennial senile hick, The rest of the cast waits of the plot to thicken an occasionally jell into a laugh. There are more than the usual number of chuckles and a few that make you rock...