Word: rubes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that old folk-culture killer, television. People are wiser (and perhaps sadder too) and won't take bamboozling with the good humor of a more innocent time. Says the Last of the Great Carny Talkers, with monumental sadness: "There just isn't any such thing as a rube or a hick these days...
...apple" run may be paid $39.95 for only four hours' work because he traveled 160 miles, while the engineer of a slower train may have to work ten hours to collect $34.33 because he traveled only 100 miles. Commented Rifkind: "Whoever invented that system belongs to the Rube Goldberg club." The commission proposed that the straightforward test of hours worked be given greater weight in wage formulas. Other commission proposals...
...Butler," a self-cleaning automatic coffeemaker that, at the touch of a button, brews and serves a cup of hot, fresh coffee in a matter of seconds. Produced by the Havajava Manufacturing Corp. of Glendale, Calif., makers of coin-operated coffee machines, the Butler operates like something in a Rube Goldberg dream...
...Russell) is the only U.S. high school to claim two Nobel prizewinners: Physicist Albert Michelson ('68), the first U.S. winner, and Physicist Joseph Erlanger ('90). Lowell's other alumni include such diverse notables as Actress Carol Channing, Paper Tycoon J. D. Zellerbach, Author Irving Stone, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Baseball Player Jerry Coleman, the late Publisher (Washington Post) Eugene Meyer, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, California Governor Pat Brown...
What words are locked in Thurber? There is rue and her (Thurber's battle of the sexes, of course); hurt (the battle does not go well); the rub (Walter Mitty playing Hamlet); rube (the author was an Ohio boy); and true (it is harder to fool little girls these days...