Word: hillbillyism
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That night John Gibson, Lillian's father, and a wrathful posse of 300 hillmen scoured the woods, caught a 22-year-old illiterate Negro named E. K. Harris. He was accused of Lillian's rape, taken to the Shelbyville jail. When a hillbilly mob went to Shelbyville, demanding...
Messrs. Holtz & Baker, in boots, dilapidated hats and hickory shirts, courting Judy Canova, a dry, hillbilly Beatrice Lillie, with a spurious mountain ballad:
But the cream machine is no novelty in England where nearly a quarter of a million housewives use it. Invented by a Briton named Major A. R. Bannister, it arrived in the U. S. by way of Canada where it was snapped up by small energetic Club Aluminum Utensil Co...
No one knows where rodeos started. Prescott, Ariz. held a championship cowboy contest on July 4, 1888. Pecos City, Tex., claims to have had an earlier one. Cheyenne's Frontier Days fiesta, though it has since become better known than Prescott's, started nine years later. Long before...
This is the story of a hillbilly boy from the South who makes good as an electrical worker during the boom years. His domain was the wide world outside any Pullman window-a world across which marches mile on mile of high-tension wire, sagging between skeleton towers.