Word: rubes
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...Streeter was scheduled to prolong it, Meade Minnigerode to extend it, Dorothy Parker to persist to the end of her chapter. Eventually the following will all have had a turn: Harry C. Witwer, Sophie Kerr, Robert G. Anderson, Kermit Roosevelt, Bernice Brown, Wallace Irwin, Frank Craven, George B. McCutcheon, Rube Goldberg, George A. Chamberlain, John V. A. Weaver, Gerald Mygatt, George P. Putnam...
...YORK, N. Y., May 2, 1923. Pennsylvania University defeated Columbia 14 to 1 in baseball here this afternoon. The batteries were: Gehrig and Price pitching and Blattis and Rube Catching, for Pennsylvania, and Yadusky and Rohrer, pitchers and Goldblatt and Maher catchers for Columbia...
...fairly void of the made-to-order villagers who usually are intended to typify the rural life. The Boston Stock Company does not portray theatre country-folk; but goes deeper and gives a sketch of typical country life. In fact, one is not once reminded of the slapstick country rube nor is the comic hired man nor the old skinflint, foiled by the gallantry of the brave hero, dragged painfully into the scenes. The plot, though simple and unimportant, is made interesting by the capable acting of the cast...
...Jimmie Barry present a humorous and well-acted skit, "The Rube." The Baroness de Hollub (Harriett Lorraine) is most entertaining in a comic sketch with Harry Crawford entitled "Fifty Loves." Songs, dances, a running fire of jokes, and an exhibition of different types of vamping compose this act, which receives considerable applause...
Other acts include Arthur Stone and Marion Hayes in a ludicrous "rube" act which is well above the average; Larry Harkins and his "Monarchs of Melody"; the Pickfords in a balancing act; the "Musical Movements" of the two Transfield sisters; Joe Santley and Jack Norton in a musical offering; and Walter Monthey and Co. in a series of dancing creations...