Word: rubes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reuben James. She was one of the old four-stacker crack-erboxes that were finished too late for the other war; she was two years older than he, and shrewish in a choppy sea. But he got to like her, learned to refer to her as Rube and developed a heap of respect for the commanding officer, Lieut. Commander Heywood L. Edwards. That name Heywood did not mean a thing: it was better to call him Tex and pay heed to his calm voice: he was six feet two and used to be an Olympic wrestler...
While Seasoned Cooks Ben Butler, Gelett Burgess, Ole ("Hellzapoppin") Olsen, and Rube Goldberg looked on, ex-Congressman Bruce Barton thrust a spoonful of his best spaghetti between the large lips of Illustrator Arthur William Brown, which thereupon smacked noisily, made other sounds indicating that Adman Barton had proved himself worthy of membership in Manhattan's Society of Amateur Chefs...
...years on the stage, Funnyman Joe Cook has thought up some 1,000 implausible inventions of the Rube Goldberg order, never sold one until last week. Then he sold one for $1,000. It was a doughnut-dunking machine (a pulley-and-string contraption) featured in his present Broadway show, It Happens on Ice. Purchaser was Doughnut Corporation of America. The sale was authentic, the money real. For Doughnut Corp., $1,000 for publicity was cheap...
...four-piece orchestra. In summer his chief pastime is softball, which he plays eagerly if not too well. Famed among the sandlot intellectuals of New York and Connecticut is his softball team, Nine Old Men, which usually includes a raft of celebrities. He likes to dress up in funny rube costumes...
Because of these antics, reverberating through the press, Dizzy Dean became the Rube Waddell of his time...