Word: rubes
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...Rube! In Palisades Amusement Park, N J., after he had paid off ten kewpie dolls, four Teddy bears and a set of china to a wondrously successful dart thrower, Concessionaire Joe Weissman investigated, found the marksman's confederate behind the backdrop with a long hatpin...
...occasionally raid the bishop's territory. But so far there has been no big attack. Bui Chu and Phat Diem still manage to maintain their independent existence. At the back of Monsignor Le Huu Tu's episcopal palace, the lathes grind out crude grenades, mortars and one Rube Goldberg contraption, proudly described by one of the priests as "our flying bomb...
...rarity among the "comics" in being really, and deliberately, funny. At 41, after 14 years of drawing Li'l Abner, Capp makes $300,000 a year, is read by 38 million fans in 700 U.S. newspapers, and has been favorably compared not only to such classic cartoonists as Rube Goldberg, but to such writers as Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens and Voltaire...
...week, at least, an American had the last word: he was Rube Goldberg, who nailed Russia's lying version of the facts in a memorable cartoon...
...when Leo [Durocher] the Lip dashes onto the field to claim "Somebody done me wrong!"-or "On me fait tort!"-he is likewise raising the clameur, which is still known on the sport pages and the radio by a vestige of the original phrase: it's a "Hay Rube Bob !"-or a "Rhubarb...