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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tunes, Scripts Plagued Them in, College--And Still Do | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 22, 1935 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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...

Author: By K. I. L., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/27/1934 | See Source »

...police station, Dillinger, identified by fingerprints, growled: "I'll be the laughing stock of the country. How did I know that a hick town police force would ever suspicion me." He and his friends, along with their women folk, Mary Kinder, Opal Long, Anne Martin, were clapped into jail, guarded by 15 armed men while police checked over five machine guns, $26,000 in cash, $12,000 in jewels, six bullet-proof vests, all found in the suspicious luggage. A Justice of the Peace held them in bail of $100,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fireman's Find | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

Practically any municipality, with the possible exception of such cities as Richmond, Louisville, Charleston, and New Orleans, is referred to as a "hick" village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1933 | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

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