Word: rubes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surrender!" is one of those slogans like "Hey Rube!" which mean little except to the initiate. "No Surrender!" means nothing particular nowadays, but not so many years ago it would have been instantly understood by any of those determined English females who shouted "Votes for Women!" in unlikely places at embarrassing moments, and continued to shout until hauled to the police station. No Surrender is the story of some of the Suffragettes' goings-on, and of the taking-off of one of their younger and prettier members...
...hard-driven pony of Poloist H, W, ("Rube") Williams (international squad) stumbled against the boundary boards of a San Mateo, Calif, polo field, leaped clean through a crowded spectators' box, felled one man in transit, crashed into two parked autos. Poloist Williams hurt his knee...
...circus types-"razorbacks" (laborers), cootch dancers, a harmless dope fiend, a harmless kleptomaniac (funny William Foran, brother of the playwright and the man who telephoned "Mrs. Margolies" in The Front Page). High point of the drama comes with the second act curtain, when the circus rallying cry of "Hey, rube!" goes up as the train is attacked by a mob of town-folk...
...York Racquet & Tennis Club last week the United States Polo Association held its annual meeting, attended to routine business and, specifically, to the delicate question of handicaps. They raised the two able Texans who played in the East last summer- Cecil Smith from seven goals to eight, Rube Williams from six to seven. Beside Williams, three other players were raised to seven: Robert Strawbridge Jr., Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford of the open-champion Hurricanes, and Stewart Iglehart of the young Old Aikens. In the great first flight of polo-the internationalists-they left Thomas Hitchcock Jr. at the highest possible rating...
...pronounced delicacy toward the subject which has made him most of his money. Only once, when he wanders out on the stage with a pine board, does he capitalize the utility which has made him famous. For the rest of the performance he comports himself like a good rube character actor. He takes the part of the grandfather of a family which has grown rich in Oklahoma oil and which has decided to go to Paris to see the sights. The attraction is adapted from Homer Croy's novel They Had to See Paris. The few moments of talent...