Word: rubes
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...fuller coal scuttle. Even his ingenious efforts to circumvent the coal shortage were backfiring. He heated his rooms with electric "fires"; result: an overstraining of the nation's electrical plants, and periodic interruption of power supply. He tried to warm his water with gas by using strange, traditional, Rube Goldberg contraptions called "geysers" (pronounced geezers). Result: a critical nationwide lowering of gas pressure...
...Feller of the Cleveland Indians had already won 21 (to 7 losses). He also had an ambitious eye on Rube Waddell's season strikeout record of 347. At week's end Bobby had struck out 262. If he failed to keep the pace, it would be partly his fault: Bobby, who decides which days he will pitch, tends to overwork himself...
Alexander P. de Seversky, planemaker and armchair strategist (Victory through Airpower), was elected mayor of Asharoken Village, N.Y. He got 23 of the 40 votes cast. Village trustee: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg...
...TIME [May 6], in an article concerning the recently emasculated OPA bill . . . stated: "The voice of Reuben, slightly hysterical as it was, had its effect." I resent your allegation that the average American citizen is a Rube and that he is hysterical...
...paper has had its share of famous reporters (Frank O'Malley, Will Irwin, Alexander Woollcott, Edwin C. Hill, etc.), and still has a stable of byliners, including Critic Ward Morehouse, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Paragrapher H. I. Phillips. By long custom, Sun editorial writers are anonymous and stay that way: Francis Pharcellus Church, who wrote the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial on short notice in 1897, had to wait until his obituary (1906) to get credit...