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...Thanks," he said as the clerk handed over the money. To a big-city friend the drummer said, as they strolled out of the lobby: "I had that hick all hot & bothered, keeping this $100 bill for me. It's stage money!" and to impress other hicks, he used the bill to light a cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: For Money | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...friend, who fled in the coupe, was taken not long after. Said Badman Nannery, the identity of whose license plates was disclosed in a recent raid on one of his haunts: "I didn't intend to let anybody take me alive. What gets me is the way that hick flat foot kidded me with that poker face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hick Flatfoot | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...Travisville in the beginning. That's his story anyway. Travis was an old ship captain and from what I hear he was some boy. Let's stick to the old name of Travisville, but let's cut off the ville. That sounds too much like a hick place. . . . Imagine going into some of them big Manhattan department stores to buy and giving your home address as Linoleumville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Linoleumville | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...finance. They had gaily signed a lot of documents which made them very nearly peons. When they brought their money to him at night he didn't 'split' with them. He 'held it back' and gave them $2.25 a day subsistence money. . . . One girl was taken ill in a hick-town hotel and left there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dishonesty | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

Major Simon Willard, one of the founders was apparently the first to build on the site where the shovels are now digging. He located in 1634 where later the Hick's house was to stand. On the other corner of the area, another more eminent man settled directly opposite Dudley's home, the site of which is marked by a polished granite slab on the corner of Dunster and South. This prominent person was John Bridge, whose statue now stands so commandingly on the Cambridge Common. Bridge was a public man of ability, serving as selectman, school supervisor, deacon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Historic Site Fast Becoming Wiped Out By Steam Shovels in Construction of New Gym | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

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