Word: hillbillyism
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He received one Leonard H. Huff, hard bitten hillbilly, aged 92, who said: "I have been waiting four years to get a chance to vote for you." Candidate Smith replied: "By gosh, I hope you get the chance."
In his dissenting opinion, Justice McKinney held with the Scopes defense and with Henry E. Colton of the Tennessee Academy of Science (which pressed the appeal) that the language employed by Farmer J. W. Butler, the bill's hillbilly author, was "so vague that men of common intelligence must...
ANGEL-Du Bose Heyward- Doran ($2). Liquor, religion and love all come hard in the Great Smokies. Poet Heyward, who summers there, has tried a distillation of these three, achieving a glorious color but not much kick. Angel Thornley, the hillbilly preacher's girl, bathes at misty dawn beneath...
The Story* jolts off down the clay ruts of Lane County, Tennessee - stretches of crowded, stumbling action; bursts of mulish power. Abner Teeftallow, a brawny illiterate of 18, leaves the poor-farm where his mother died insane, to labor as a teamster on a traction project of Lanesburg's...
Sun Up. One of the few convincing and unusual pieces of writing about the Southern hillbilly and his environment, somewhat spoiled by a frenetic rah-rah finale.