Word: yokel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phelps Putnam, The Daughters of the Sun, too long to quote, too good to quote from. Of the newcomers, William Rollins Jr.'s short novel, The Obelisk, is a painfully accurate account of adolescence's nightmares. Erskine Caldwell's Midsummer Passion is a Chekhovian incident of yokel bawdiness and embarrassment, e. e. cummings, noted licentiate of verse, has some fun with prose and prose ideas. Paul Green contributes a full-length play, Tread the Green Grass. There are eleven short stories (so called for convenience); 44 poems, and an essay by Critic Yvor Winters, The Extension...
Bebe Daniels, the feminine funner is on view this week at the Keith-Albee Memorial Theatre in "Take Me Home." A comedy of the chorus girl and the yokel boy-friend, this picture manages to be quite funny in spots, and at least has the pleasing feature of being constantly on the move. With no plot to speak of, the picture does not suffer as the cavortings of the Bebe and Joe Brewn suffice...
...haena time tae airn't oot sae the pages can be turn't an' read. The last nummer wasna sae sair mutilatit as that for Sept. 24, an' I hae read some o' it. I see ye say that Jix addressed "the gaping Ayrshire yokels." That's a fine sentence. I hae nae doot the chap that wrote it read it twice or oftener, and smile't at his ain smertness. I widna say but he compare't himsel (muckle tae his ain advantage) wi' that Ayrshire yokel, Rabbie Burns. Rabble...
Martine. A country girl who fell in love with a casual journalist and who married a yokel she didn't like when the journalist turned his attention to a brighter flame-that is what this quiet but very human little French play is about. But there is apparently some consequence of translation and transportation which leaves such plays weak. The American Laboratory Theatre presents this one with a cast that is clever but amateurish...
...section on Goodness, the author does not fall to include the familiar distribe on the passion in America for proyphylactic cleanliness. It is not extraordinary that our land of prohibitions both legal and moral, provides tantalizing stimulus for any sensitive observer, be he yokel or diplomat, foreigner or native wit. In this portion of the book alone does the author play the game he has chosen for though fairry adroit satire pinch-hits for the more rugged sincerity which any critical work presupposes he nevertheless concludes his observations in more commendable fashion than he approached his unfamiliar subject...