Word: hillbillyism
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Andy went off to teach college in Texas, but he soon got homesick for the purple, smoky hills and unlearned mountain folk of Georgia. So back he went, bought himself a small piece of land and began to keep school for his neighbors. His school, first called Rabun Gap, eventually...
"Duke" was hauling furniture around a set for Born Reckless when Director Raoul Walsh spotted him, ordered him for god's sake not to cut his hair, which had grown shaggy at the nape. Then "Duke" was renamed John Wayne, pushed ahead of some 82 other candidates for the...
His wife, Dora, and their son, Arod, travel ahead in a sound truck, to act as circus advance men. They all put on a show: Glenn sings hillbilly songs, then starts his spiel. A rank isolationist in 1940, he plumps now for total war. In 1940 he called Franklin Roosevelt...
On hand to sing old Scottish scolding ballads was Mrs. Lyda Messer Caudill, who says she is a hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots. Bud Oney, mighty, black-mustached blacksmith of Long Horn Hollow, fiddled Cherokee Girl, Lost Indian, other lively tunes. Youngest headliner was Bud McCoy, 4. whose...
Sirs: Just to let you know that I am keeping informed as to what is really going on in the world, but not through your propaganda sheets. Oh, I also read propaganda material, but have enough intelligence to weed it out, even though I'm only a hillbilly. Don...