Word: rubes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Picture-of-the-Week: "The Life of Jack London". . . Famous last words: "Gee, honey, I thought you knew I was married" . . . Row K avows Rube Goldberg had been at the blackboard in R.E. the other day--he ran out of pink chalk, however. . . Lowbrow Essay: Snow is little hunks of white stuff, which when warmed...
...hour over CBS Station KMOX, a 50,000-watter with some 2,500.000 steady listeners. They emanate from a radio group known as Cousin Emmy and Her Kin Folks. There is square-dance music, a female duo singing something like Back in the Saddle Again, a comedy rube act, a "Western instrumental trio," and Cousin Emmy, who best describes the rest of the show: "First I hits it up on my banjo, and I wow 'em. Then I do a number with the guit-tar and play the French harp and sing, all at the same time. Then somebody...
...boys at Brewer's would rather talk about the 1939 election in which Jack Evans, a salt-&-peppery veteran of 25 years in Westerns, beat out Rube Dalroy, a full-bearded, booted ex-circus clown and rider with Buffalo Bill, for the whimsical honor of being Mayor of Gower Gulch. The campaign was promoted by Brewer's so that the clientele would buy more drinks. To vote, you had to write your candidate's name on a cash-register receipt. Business zoomed. But the election almost went into a tailspin when a late starter appeared. The dark...
...real goo (flown in from North Africa) turned out to be different from the Army's original description, and more hard-to-get materials had to be commandeered. The goo was so unusual and heavy that Standard's grease equipment had to be jacked up with Rube Goldbergian extra belts, pulleys and paddles. But by the following Sunday the order was done, four hours before the promised delivery time. By that time the plant was half-wrecked, as equipment collapsed under the strain. Then the Army asked for another 200,000 Ib. by the following weekend. At that...
Even at present high prices, and despite rationing, food shortages mounted. The Department of Agriculture started taking Canadian grain to meet a new, dangerous shortage-feed for cattle. Meanwhile Congress mouthed over a Rube Goldbergian tax bill engendered mainly by the Administration's failure to advance a courageous tax program in the first place...