Word: hillbillyism
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"Labor" is a required course at Berea; during four years every student must work at least ten hours per week. There are standard courses also, from ABC's to A.B. and B.S. degrees. Visitors to classrooms are impressed with such imaginative hillbilly phrases as: "My home is way up...
Bernarr Macfadden, 63, who started life as a puny Missouri hillbilly, who made himself into a professional strongman and later a millionaire publisher on the body-love theme, last week arranged to perpetuate his fame and elevate his prestige. Even as John D. Rockefeller improved the odor of his oil...
Frankfort, Ky., where the oldest U. S. cell block (1798) is still in use. Several Southern prisons use the disciplinary strap, but not Kentucky. Said the late Warden John Chilton, dean of U. S. wardens, who died six months ago: "If I used a strap on those hillbillies they would...
Ever since the Dayton, Tenn., "monkey trial" of 1925, which was a technical victory for Fundamentalism because William Jennings Bryan swung a hillbilly jury away from Clarence Darrow and one John Thomas Scopes was fined $100 for teaching Evolution in contravention of the State law, Fundamentalists have been saying not...
Agriculture is the preoccupation of practically all state universities, but not of West Virginia, although its corn, hay, tobacco, potatoes and fruits are worth $100,000,000 each year. Its hillbilly farmers are too difficult to reach with farming information.*