Word: yokels
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...last month, and for eight days readers of the Chicago Tribune and 140 other newspapers followed Cartoonist Martin Michael Branner's heroine through a series of depressing experiences. She was annoyed by a traveling salesman, bored by a Shakespearean ham, sprawled over by a yokel couple. Many a reader guessed that Cartoonist Branner had gone somewhere on a bus and hadn't liked it much...
...somewhat inauspicious choice for the opener. A thin play, its characterizations were so unclarified that even the expert Abbeyites seemed uncertain in them. Katie (Eileen Crowe), a young country girl born the wrong side of an aristocratic blanket, is an open-hearted flirt with illusions of grandeur. Rejecting Yokel Michael (Arthur Shields), she marries middleaged, blue-blooded Bachelor Stanislaus Gregg (F. J. McCormick). Crisis of this ill-matched marriage comes when Stanislaus finds artless Katie and naive Michael together, decides to transfer his wife permanently to the less tempting air of Dublin...
...nursed Robert back to health, was the daughter of a divided family. Her father was on Longstreet's staff; her two brothers were fighting for the North. More than her Southern ancestry divided her from Robert. He felt himself an ignorant yokel compared to her; but before his furlough ended he knew he loved her. By the time he got back to the Army of the Cumberland, Ann had followed her father down into Georgia, inside the Confederate lines. But those were the days when Confederate lines were drawing in. Just before the two armies fumbled their way into...
...silent screen in 1925, is still an almost ideal vehicle for its bulb-nosed star. As Professor Eustace McGargle, broken down carnival spieler accompanied by his docile & devoted ward (Rochelle Hudson), he wanders into a village tent show, bulldozes the proprietor into giving him a concession, teaches yokels the intricacies of the pea & shell game, palms off his ward as heiress to the town's biggest fortune. By the time it has been established that she really is an heiress, W. C. Fields has had time to execute several of his most celebrated routines. He gets tangled up with...
...this - " Whist! Reynolds unrolled the carpet on the platform, strutted across it pompously to the imaginary doorway of the Mayflower. "And do you know," roared Reynolds, "what he eats in that there hotel? He eats caw-vee-yah! Do you folks know what caw-vee-yah is?" "What?" some yokel would ask faintly. "Why that's fish eggs. That's what it is - fish eggs...