| 单词 | rube |
| 例句 | Once again, a new batch is mixed up with trough water and set out moments before the rubes descend. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The other townsfolk—rubes, as Uncle Al called them—had already made their way through the menagerie tent and into the big top, which pulsed with frenetic music. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “A fight between us and them. Show folk and rubes. You ready?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Could be anything—fire in the big top, stampede, whatever. Aw sweet Jesus. The poor rubes probably don’t even know it yet.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Most of the rubes have already filed through on their way to the big top. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z With the exception of a handful of men in front of the sideshow—probably waiting to be led to Barbara—all the rubes are in the big top. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Rubes are still rubes, and you can still tell the performers from the workers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z If the rubes didn’t know, they were about to find out. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Possibly, she realizes to her horror, she may have been as much of a rube as everyone else this entire time. We are all Kim Wexler, part 2: “Better Call Saul” finale taps our love affair with grifters 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The set-up in the film suggests that Sheetz executives may be played for rubes, but the executives at the company, based in Altoona, Pa., prove to be anything but. Financing the Hand That Slaps (or Nibbles) You 2011-04-16T02:33:01Z Yet while he puts on a smashing show, whether on or off the stage, only a rube would think that Mr. Jay is ready to reveal secrets about either his magical ways or his life. Movie Review: ‘Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay’ 2013-04-17T20:40:36Z Whenever I try to picture what they look like, I see a bunch of caricatures: grubby-faced rubes hunting possum or whittling wood — recreational sports of the hillbilly Olympics. All the ways I killed off my dad 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z He fights against a past that haunts him and fights some more against a city that’s indifferent to his cowboy kitsch and absolutely pitiless in spotting a rube in its midst. Midnight Cowboy at 50: why the X-rated best picture winner endures 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z “He wasn’t a rube or a bumpkin, but he also didn’t grow up in the big city, so he retained the perspective of an outsider who was embraced by those who had.” Robert Benchley’s Legacy in a Era of Fraught Comedy 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z I feel like I am painting all of us — my immediate family, my friends and me — as ignorant rubes, but I don't think we are. No matter if you call this coconut dessert a tart or a torte, it's absolutely delicious 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z But you don’t have to be a rube about it. Hey, Elon Musk, Comedy Doesn’t Want to Be Legal 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Strictly for the rubes, or 12 years olds without a life. Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Most of the time, I know I’m the one with the privilege so I’m OK playing the rube. What’s wrong with “vanilla”? 2012-09-16T01:00:00Z Limbaugh on Wednesday called Common an "artiste" and suggested that only uneducated rubes would dare criticize his lyrics. Rapper attends White House event despite criticism 2011-05-12T03:51:12Z "Clinton," which was presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2012, is a comedy that imagines two Bill Clintons -- one an uncouth rube from Arkansas, the other a beloved president of the people. Musical about Bill Clinton coming to New York 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z “Every sort of rube, redneck, responsible citizen and hell-raiser the Jersey Shore had to offer, I rode with ’em,” he writes in “Born to Run.” Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir: Riding Shotgun With the Boss 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z “Jay,” an insulting slang term similar to “hick” or “rube,” was commonly used in the phrase “jay-driver,” which denoted errant drivers of horse-drawn carriages and motorized cars. Los Angeles Pedestrians Look Forward to Relaxed Jaywalking Law 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z “Good, clean fun” used to be the calling card for “The Music Man,” Meredith Willson’s musical from 1957, about a con artist who sells clarinets and trombones to credulous rubes. Which Show Is Good, Clean Fun: ‘Rocky Horror’ or ‘The Music Man’? 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z “I was favor-trading with people who were causing real-world harm so I could get a pat on the head from some client who wanted self-serving scuttlebutt fed to the rubes,” he writes of his career. ‘Why We Did It’ Is a Dark Ride on the ‘Republican Road to Hell’ 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z That one joke is this: Suppose the inbred redneck rubes — with their penchant for chewin' tobacco, bad dentistry, worse grammar and chain saws — were merely innocent bystanders. 'Tucker & Dale vs. Evil': Comedy isn't a killer 2011-09-29T20:01:07Z Doing so requires them to assume false identities, double cross trusting rubes and win over the audience with witty banter. Smart Watch: "Flack," "Whiskey Cavalier" and sex appeal of liars 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Everything looks like a con, everyone looks like the rube, which means so do you. Las Vegas was built by gangsters, and we celebrated those stories 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Escobar comes to the halls of Congress underdressed, like the rube who has to borrow a house jacket in order to get into a fancy restaurant. 'Narcos' Episode 3 Recap: Pablo the Politician 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Although he’s literal and serious, he’s no rube, nor is he a naive standard of moral innocence like Mark Twain’s Huck Finn. If you liked ‘Wicked,’ you’ll be enchanted by ‘Hiddensee’ 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Zimmerman spots an easy mark, a rube he can squeeze for book advance money while teasing ridiculous promises like luring Warren Beatty away from Paramount. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 3: The Mike Yanagita Effect 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Democrats thought he was a tyrant, a rube, and was destroying the Constitution. 24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z In other words, they smell like unicorn breath and angel tears, you rubes, don’t question us. My perfume safari – searching for scents outside fancy international cities 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z If Brentano members gave tips to the actors, they should be applauded; wielding their bows, none of the actors look like a rube. A Late Quartet: Harmonic Divergence Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener 2012-11-01T16:04:18Z The rubes may not mind: may the joke be with you! ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Led by Matheson, the Brats accidentally start a recording studio fire, mystify the audience at a debutante ball, topple overboard in a drunken boat mishap and generally behave like clumsy rubes. ‘Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of the Hollywood Brats’ 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z But the rubes loathe “elitists”; with the wisdom of a fetus, I just ran the best campaign. Style Invitational Week 1210: Bill Us Now — our ‘joint legislation’ contest 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z As my forehead sadly puckers, I will play them all for suckers, Yes, I'll con the rubes in Maine. Style Invitational Week 1463: Fork over some (new) spoonerisms 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Words for personal physical and character traits — beautiful, intelligent, dishonest, rubes — are carved into the trees’ paper-like bark. Who am I? Provacative answers in 'Me, Myself, I' at China Art Objects 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z In his kinetic act, Mr. Scovel shifts into a variety of Southern figures, including a would-be cool preacher and a rube. A Comic on the Verge, His Absurdism on the Fly 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The rubes were all riled up that sad November; the racists and the Russkies stirred the pot. Style Invitational Week 1287: Oldies for newsies — a song parody contest 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The narrator refrains, recognizing mockery won’t help, a reminder to those of us on the left who smugly caricature all Trump supporters as ignorant rubes. Donald Trump should read Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall' 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z “I was coming from Tennessee, and I was basically a rube. My father let me do a summer session in Mexico learning Spanish.” Dream Logic Mixed With ‘a Catalog of My Interests Back in 1996’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “But softly now; you are tearing the lace of my sleeve. A plague on your clumsy fingers!” one Doomsman warns Constans, in that time-honored tradition of upbraiding rubes from the suburbs. The 1906 Novel That Imagined Present-Day New York 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z In Robert Heinlein’s 1951 novel “The Puppet Masters,” slimy parasitic space monsters arrived in the Iowa cornfields to deploy their mind-control wiles on the heartland rubes. Suburban alienation meets aliens in Margaret Wappler's 'Neon Green' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z In Gainsborough, especially, the Puritans were not rubes but bustling men of business. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z Try and imagine it like Citizen Kane, only with a load of paying rubes wandering around Xanadu in the background of every important scene. Mar-a-Lago: where Trump’s monstourage mingles with paying guests 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z A bearded rube with a red nose smoking eight pipes. Review | This is not the Magritte we know 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z In one recent episode, a rash action by one of the militia’s biggest rubes destroyed the syringe containing Claire’s only successful sample of penicillin. Perspective | In Starz’s enjoyably escapist ‘Outlander,’ a relevant story line about finding the cure 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Visiting New York City, he seemed like a rube to reporters. ‘All the King’s Men,’ Now 70, Has a Touch of 2016 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z They just see a bunch of rubes who are easily manipulated into handing over their money. Vivek Ramaswamy's 15 minutes are here, showing yet again all the GOP base wants is trolling 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z And the result, at least to the palate of this relative vodka rube, is the one they sought: a smooth, sweet, crystal-clear spirit that can be enjoyed neat, at room temperature. The real force behind the celebrity booze boom isn't (just) money 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z De Shields-Moon quickly found herself buying loads of clothes not to look like a rube in her new hometown. Five people confess their worst money mistakes — and what you can learn from them 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Mockery and liberal schadenfreude toward the "rubes" who bought Trump's scam trading cards may partly be fueled by wonder and envy at his enduring power over his followers. Trump's trading cards are stupid: Ha ha. But who gets the last laugh? 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Conservatives perceive, not always incorrectly, that liberals are laughing at them for being a bunch of tasteless rubes with boring sex lives and expanding beer guts. How Trump and Elon build their cults: Exploiting right-wing insecurity 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s also a pulpy grindhouse B-picture tricked out in art house pretensions, counting on the siren call of sex and violence to fleece the rubes. Review | ‘Bones and All’: All shock and no value 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Zaslav knows there are plenty of rubes just like me probably willing to pay. HBO Max and Warner Bros. Discovery seem to be on fire, and that’s on purpose 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z “Anyone who disagrees with us is a security risk, a deplorable, and thoughtless rube!” All Republicans are now terrorists 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z The character of Ben initially has a condescending attitude toward Quentin, assuming he is going to be a kind of rube. B.J. Novak and Ashton Kutcher talk ‘Vengeance,’ 'Punk'd' and a 'friend at Davos' 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z To keep the rubes coming to the churches where they'd hear that GOP message, Republicans on the Supreme Court had to throw them the occasional bone. So where did all this right-wing religious nuttery come from? 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z “These guys, they must think we are an ignorant rube county,” said Christy Hubbard, who owns a home near the mining site. A California gold mine’s toxic legacy: Inside the fight over reopening a treasure trove 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z I’m no rube when it comes to magic tricks, but this guy was a certifiable warlock. ‘I Just Couldn’t See Hanging That Drawing on My Wall’ 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z But he cannot shake the suspicion that he has become a rube in a global economy run for the benefit of others. How America’s Farmers Got Cut Out of the Supply Chain 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z In the estimate of Bloomberg financial columnist Matt Levine, the goal is indistinguishable from encouraging them to find “some retail rubes” to foist the shares on. Column: Trump's SPAC deal could mark a peak for a very scammy corner of Wall Street 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z But when he auditioned for his first record contract, the big Mexico City labels treated him like a rube. Vicente 'Chente' Fernandez, the King of Mexican song who saluted working-class heroes, has died 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z It is fundamentally all about raking in money from the rubes. Investigative reporter David Neiwert: Rittenhouse verdict a "green light for right-wing extremists" 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Senate observers have long been accustomed to the Oxford-educated Kennedy’s Gomer Pyle act; if he choose to play to the rubes gallery, all we can say is bless his heart. Column: Biden nominee Omarova faces an ugly attack because banks fear she'll be a tough regulator 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z “He doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt of being this rube congressman and he is going to have to defend his positions.” Beto O’Rourke promises unity in new Texas governor bid 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z This is about more than one rube coach’s or executive’s foul views; it’s about whether the league will let those attitudes taint hiring practices and its entire environment. Perspective | In NFL’s latest crisis of public trust, Roger Goodell is nowhere to be found 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Coach Lasso is so gosh darn affable that outsiders think he’s a rube or, worse, a phony, but he doesn’t let that pervading cynicism defeat him. The Emmys are Sunday. Here's who's going to win 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z After being treated like a rube by the Big Apple cops and getting stalled on his assignment, he bluffs his way into taking custody of the prisoner. Home theater movie reviews: ‘Coogan’s Bluff’ (Blu-ray) & ‘Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ (4K Ultra HD) 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It was 1985, and I was starting the graduate acting program at New York University — a very big deal, especially for a rube like me from Indianola, Iowa. ‘Two Frozen Margaritas Later, We Agreed to Do It Again in a Month’ 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Liberal schadenfreude was in full bloom on social media, which saw a torrent of mockery directed at Trump and his followers, often describing them as ignorant rubes or losers. Donald Trump rallies the troops in Phoenix: Unfortunately, that's not a metaphor 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z It's hard to feel sorry for the rubes that make up the Fox News audience, because their mean-spirited nature is what makes them such easy marks. Fox News treats its viewers as fools with latest vaccine disinformation campaign 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Why are a third of us such gullible rubes? The power of the Big Lie: Why do 30% of Americans cling to Trump's dark fantasy? 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s all too easy to deride followers as foolish rubes. What really explains the sway of cults? It all comes down to their words, author says. 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Meg was also a rube, from Hayward, Calif. We decided to learn the city by “walking the greens.” ‘Two Frozen Margaritas Later, We Agreed to Do It Again in a Month’ 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z In this "mainstream" narrative, the rubes in red-state Fox News America are being tricked again. Don't laugh at Mr. Potato Head: The right's culture-war obsessions are a threat to democracy 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Salt was my friend, too, because to undersalt something is to be a rube. Food was my life — until a heart attack at 41 almost killed me 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z From the idealistic liberalism of my high school English teachers, I learned that to try to get rid of offensive literature is the great sin of easily triggered rubes. Opinion | Do Liberals Care if Books Disappear? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Cruz wants to play this off as a lark, a political stunt to pander to rubes that vote for him, and not a serious effort. Don't dismiss Trump's "Stop the Steal" tantrum: The GOP is trolling our democracy to death 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z As with their beloved president, dramatic performance of public piety by so many right-wing Christian leaders is little more than a dog-and-pony show put on to sucker the rubes. Remember that stupid thing Donald Trump did? Hard as it is to pick, here are the top 10 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z For Republican politicians and right-wing media, whose careers are centered around feeding silly victimization narratives to the right-wing base, there was all manner of made-up nonsense to get the rubes riled up. A return to fake right-wing outrage: Without Trump, Republicans run back to sexist resentments 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z But for most of his presidency, I’ve been among his defenders, especially pushing back against the view that his rural base is a collection of racist, ignorant rubes. Opinion | During his presidency, I defended Trump. But now his time is over. 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z This week I learned from a different kind of liberalism that only easily triggered rubes care when offensive books are made to disappear. Opinion | Do Liberals Care if Books Disappear? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Time Magazine called him "the mousy little man from Missouri" after the selection, the New York Times called him a rube. Joe Scarborough on Harry Truman, Donald Trump and what the hell happened to the Republican Party 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z The New York Times dismissed him as a “rube.” Opinion | What Joe Biden can learn from Harry Truman 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Trump, meanwhile, is simply playing aggrieved and trying to fleece the rubes one more time while he still holds office, telling his worshipers that the system is out to get him. Trump's false voter-fraud claims could blow GOP's chances of holding Senate 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, Lemon laughed hysterically as two of his guests mocked Trump voters as illiterate "credulous rubes." CNN's Don Lemon claims Trump voters must have 'cognitive dissonance' to support such a 'bad person' 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Yet he seemed to want the senators to know that he was never enough of a rube to take his own propaganda seriously. Opinion | Trumpism Is a Racket, and Steve Bannon Knew It 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z As for the My Pillow guy, he's a millionaire many times over from selling his ridiculous pillows to the rubes with ads on Fox News. The three amigos of scam artistry: Steve Bannon, Roy Moore and the My Pillow guy 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z The rubes and the deniers, with so little regard for science, who were unwilling to sacrifice, for the collective good, the pleasures of a Miller Lite consumed at a floating cocktail table. Lifestyles of the Rich and Reckless: Posh Pandemic Parties 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z He'll be left at the end with the losers and incels and rubes in the red hats — stricken, lonely people who looked to him as a savior and for whom he feels only contempt. Donald Trump is doomed, and he knows it: But will he go out with a whimper or a bang? 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z A Georgia rube joins the peacetime Air Force and talks back to his sergeant. Movies on TV this week: 'The Seventh Seal' on TCM 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z She is charitable, treating those she meets as rounded individuals full of hope and pain, not as a motley collection of rubes and charlatans to be mocked. What UFOs can tell us about life on Earth 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The "CNN Tonight" anchor was widely criticized in January for his over-the-top laughter in response to his panelists ridiculing Trump supporters as illiterate "credulous rubes." CNN's Don Lemon says 'it's not my intention to say bad things' about Trump while trashing Trump 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The former strategist, an outspoken critic of President Trump, recently went viral during a CNN appearance with Don Lemon where they mocked Trump supporters as illiterate "credulous rubes." Frequent CNN guest Rick Wilson mocks Melania Trump to '#BeInfected' with coronavirus 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Lincoln is portrayed as “a backwoods rube,” uncouth in his manners, and “a gorilla.” Lincoln’s legacy offers lessons in statesmanship 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z This was a month that started with a CNN panel led by Mr. Lemon and GOP strategists mocking Trump voters as idiot rubes as they laughed hysterically. ‘Oscars 2020’ parades Hollywood’s contempt for everyday Americans 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Acosta bested his colleague, CNN anchor Don Lemon, who received attention this week after his panel mocked Trump supporters as illiterate "credulous boomer rubes." CNN's Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta join MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Jennifer Rubin in 'Liberal Hack Tournament' Final Four 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z On Wednesday night, Lemon addressed the viral clip that showed him doubled over in laughter after Republican political consultant Rick Wilson made fun of President Trump and his supporters, calling them "boomer rubes." Ben Shapiro to Don Lemon: Stop 'clinging to the notion' that you're an 'objective journalist' 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z During the segment, Mr. Wilson began to mock and dismiss President Trump and his supporters as illiterate “credulous boomer rubes,” who were too dumb to understand maps or much of anything else. CNN outdoes itself with arrogant and smug ridicule of Trump supporters 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Greg Gutfeld reacted Wednesday on "The Five" to CNN anchor Don Lemon and a panel segment he held that received heavy backlash after a guest mocked Trump supporters as "boomer rubes." Greg Gutfeld: CNN host Don Lemon, Rick Wilson exhibited 'classism' by mocking Trump supporters 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Lemon sparked a widespread backlash this week after he laughed hysterically as Republican political strategist Rick Wilson ripped the president’s base as the “credulous boomer rube demo,” among other insults. Don Lemon says he wasn’t laughing at Trump supporters: ‘I don’t believe in belittling people’ 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z On Monday night, a panel discussion went viral and faced intense backlash for mocking Trump supporters as "credulous boomer rubes," even sparking fierce condemnation from Trump and his presidential campaign. Don Lemon addresses CNN panel mocking Trump voters 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z "The Five" co-host Dana Perino took issue Tuesday with former Republican consultant Rick Wilson's mockery of Trump supporters as "credulous boomer rubes." Dana Perino: CNN segment mocking Trump supporters was 'really offensive' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z A CNN panel is facing intense backlash on Monday night for mocking Trump supporters as "credulous boomer rubes," even sparking fierce condemnation from President Trump and his presidential campaign. CNN Don Lemon panel faces intense backlash for mocking Trump supporters as illiterate 'credulous rubes' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z “You have to play to your strengths,” added Orgeron, who can laugh right along with those who portray him as a marble-mouthed rube. Swinney, Orgeron leading evolution in coaching styles 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The NYT explained to us rubes that “at the heart of our state’s rot” is “a failure to live sustainably.” Column: The year is 2020 and so is my vision: Some predictions for the new year 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z To soothe an irate client, he offers tickets to “Cats,” a Broadway show he knows this rube will appreciate. Commentary: The movie is a wreck, the musical is a joke. Why, then, will we always have 'Cats'? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z He compared the prime minister to a used-car salesman trying to sell a lemon to a rube. Trump pal Nigel Farage tells Boris Johnson he must abandon his Brexit deal in coming election — or else 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z But he's up for re-election in Texas next year and is playing to the big rube in the White House, who was no doubt pleased. Republicans aren't flailing or desperate: Their attack on impeachment is strategic — and might work 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The other caricature is that Donald Trump is a moron, and the pundits and other professional political observers are all a bunch of rubes for assigning to Trump this genius. "We're all going to wear a scarlet letter": Tim Alberta on the rise of Trump and the fall of the GOP 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Only a hopeless rube, apparently, would understand @HouseDemocrats as actually speaking for, say, the House Democrats! Understanding the AOC vs. Pelosi feud: It's not a "catfight" but a long-term power struggle 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z She accuses Planned Parenthood of being sleazy profiteers, but she more closely fits the mold of a huckster profiting off the rubes. "Unplanned" and shameless: Hit anti-abortion movie is a total right-wing grift 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Some would object to such conclusions and claim that these membership cards are just another example of Trump's naked greed and how he is taking advantage of the rubes once again. Echoes of history: Trump's "movement" now has a uniform and membership cards 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z As I stood on the corner waving my arms like a rube, one of the construction workers looked in my direction and started to laugh. ‘I Really Just Wanted the Comfort of My Husband’s Being There’ 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z He took in the rubes from the Midwest and sheltered them with his cool. Why Luke Perry’s death is so personal for many forgotten Gen Xers 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Ann Coulter, the conservative commentator, called the declaration a “ruse” that “was always just a way to fool the rubes in his base” in a Thursday night tweet. Trump, testing limits of presidential authority, to declare border emergency 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z What rubes we were—we were informed that there is no sauce.” The Family Business That Put Nashville Hot Chicken on the Map 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z “What, were you tellin’ all your friends that we were just a bunch o’ rubes?” Texas experts help present Smithsonian sea monsters exhibit 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Yes, these people are very rich and I am not, but look at the dumb things these rubes spent their millions on. Facebook political ad tools are ripe for trolling 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z It is easy to write stories about white rubes in rural areas who were somehow duped into voting for Trump. Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges: Donald Trump “is the product of a failed democracy” 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z They said to themselves, "OK, Trump has the rubes riled up but we can control him once we get him in the system. We will be able to lean on him." Max Boot on the end of conservatism: “The Republican Party needs to be burned down” 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z That's just something they say to rile up the rubes, to trick them into voting for the real agenda, which is about economics and taxes. So it’s true: Republicans really do hate women 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z If voters were slack-jawed rubes, well, it couldn’t be the fault of progressives that protests were small or that leftwing ideas lacked purchase. How a disastrous change in perspective disempowered the left and let the right rise | Jeff Sparrow 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Perhaps he understands them as innocents or rubes or marks or lovable pets — and those are the ones he claims to like! — although it’s not healthy to venture too far into speculative Trumpian psychology. America is married to the mob: But now the crime boss in the White House is feeling the heat 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z When people feel condescended to by the media or told that they are simply rubes being manipulated — even by expert political manipulators — they are more likely to embrace those beliefs even more strongly. Twitter is wrong: facts are not enough to combat Alex Jones 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z There are no penalties in politics for lying, which is why politicians since the dawn of civilization have succumbed to the temptation to routinely dupe the rubes into supporting them. Donald Trump may be the worst liar in political history: And it’s getting worse 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z But virulent hatred for immigrants isn’t just a matter of rural rubes. Trump’s vision of immigration bears no relationship to reality 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z And there are many clowns like him lining up with Koch-like money to fool the rubes in the future. Sex Claims Against Missouri Governor Vividly Detailed in Report 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z In many countries, someone like Mr. Hegde would be cordoned off from polite society while he duped unsuspecting rubes on the internet. India’s Government Wages a Phony War on Fake News 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The right-wing response is a cheap shot, but Clinton’s remarks reflect a condescension too prevalent among some Democrats, who convey a disdain for less educated, nonurban Trump voters as ignorant, prejudiced rubes. Two mistakes Democrats can’t afford to make 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z More clodhopper than royalty, like rubes in a hand-me-down suit. Remember the Titans: Forty years after Cal State Who, Fullertons take on Purdue 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The rubes fall for it and he escapes. America (hurt) First: Trump’s dangerous game on trade 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Rockwell has won the Golden Globe and the SAG Award for playing a racist rube of a police officer in “Three Billboards.” Analysis | Oscar nominations 2018: ‘The Shape of Water’ leads with 13; ‘Get Out’ nominated for best picture 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z A temporary tax cut to fool the rubes on a short-term basis. Expecting a Tax Cut Next Year? Spend It on Others 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z When she finally accepted the offer and moved to New York, her ignorance of the city made her practically a rube. Tina Brown: 'What is it with old men and bathrobes?' 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Do any of you rubes wonder why the Republicans made the middle class tax cuts temporary? Republican Tax Bill in Final Sprint Across Finish Line 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z He told the crowd that they can be “the voice of the deplorables” next Tuesday: “They think you’re a bunch of rubes. They hold you in total contempt,” he said. Analysis | The Daily 202: Why so many women are still supporting Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z He regularly demonstrates his utter contempt for working people by treating them as rubes. Opinion | The populist mask is slipping for Trump and the GOP 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z “Did you grow up in a trailer park?” he continued, clearly implying that he considered Midwesterners to be a bunch of badly housed rubes. A Wine Connoisseur Heads Home to Fly-Over Country 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Only you, with your red carpets, fame, millions of dollars, and cameras pointed at your faces, could be trusted to know what was best for all us rubes. Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein show Hollywood morals absent 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Drawing conclusions from the preseason is for rubes, and sports-radio callers. This Terrelle Pryor Sr.-Kirk Cousins pairing might need a little time 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The gerrymander may be constitutional, but it treats my neighbors who live in what used to be the 6th Congressional District as ignorant redneck rubes who shouldn’t be permitted to vote for their congressional representation. Gerrymandering has cost many Marylanders true representation 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Put aside for a moment the question of why, if Don Jr. and Kushner are such unprepared political rubes, they were entrusted with so much responsibility in the first place. Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and the lie of inherent white innocence 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z But none of these labels quite capture Trump’s most distinguishing foreign policy characteristic: he’s a rube. Donald Trump’s foreign policy is so much more corrupt and dangerous than his possible ties to Putin 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z “They think I’m this rube from Ohio,” he said. Opinion | The dark source of Roger Ailes’s power 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But as a modernism based on secular scientific and cultural assumptions took control of institution after institution, evangelicals often found themselves dismissed as anti-intellectual rubes. Opinion | Trump is evangelicals’ ‘dream president.’ Here’s why. 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z As before, dark forces will arrive from out of town; big-city operators will come up against small-town rubes and those they take for rubes. Beautifully constructed 'Fargo' returns for Season 3 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z He rejects the idea that his party is anti-science, arguing that “you can find rubes and lunatics on either side” of the US political divide. Republican scientists negotiate the Trump era 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Evans, a former dentist, proposed that his was “a movement of plain people,” and acknowledged that this “lays us open to the charge of being hicks and ‘rubes’ and ‘drivers of secondhand Fords.’ I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z “This is literally how all insurance works,” Charles Pierce wrote for Esquire, calling Ryan a “rube.” Perspective | Should healthy people have to pay for chronic illnesses? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The success of Kimmel’s stunt depends on whom you consider the rube in this situation. Jimmy Kimmel's tourists and the danger of awards-show stunts 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Obamacare, reliant on lies and presuming the average American is a rube, ruined people’s lives and almost destroyed our health care infrastructure. Liberal establishment is failing 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Has the Commerce Secretary-designate thought about this — or is it all a hustle to fool the rubes? The big con in 'renegotiating NAFTA' 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Refreshingly, “The Middle” neither venerates the Hecks as “real Americans,” nor ridicules them as flyover rubes. Has Hollywood lost touch with American values? 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z This know-nothing braggart is about to take the US down a road only his lunatic fringe rubes supporters will cheer. With Choice of Trade Negotiator, Trump Prepares to Confront Mexico and China 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The sophisticated Southern Californians grew so impatient waiting for their opponents, when the rubes finally did arrive, a fight nearly ensued between the head coaches. Bill Plaschke | USC-Penn State matchup: a Rose Bowl the way it's meant to be 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z The alt-right, in this telling, is not a movement of patriotic rubes but a meaningful part of a broader picture of Western populist revolt. Five myths about the alt-right 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z At the same time, the people of Stars Hollow — especially Lorelai — are anything but rubes. 'Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life' is a welcome slice of smart holiday escapism 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z He hitchhiked with “every sort of rube, redneck, responsible citizen and hell-raiser the Jersey Shore had to offer”. A whole damn city crying 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z As a "lunatic fringe rube", MD U. of Chicago, MBA NYU, I love the fact that we are driving you crazy. With Choice of Trade Negotiator, Trump Prepares to Confront Mexico and China 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The company says it's got things under control, and notes that it has been lending since the 1930s and is no rube when it comes to judging credit risk. Will boom in loans at retailers, manufacturers turn to bust? 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Barnum — a “marketer, con, snake-oil salesman who knows better, knows how to get the rubes into the tent.” Scope of Trump's falsehoods unprecedented for a modern presidential candidate 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Indeed, the performance can’t be sustained unless we support it with our credulity, like a tentful of rubes gaping at the tricks of a carnival magician, even offering ourselves up as subjects. The Obama years: novelists assess his legacy 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z He's the stranger who comes to town, dedicated to separating the rubes from their money, promising with a carnival barker's conviction that only he has the magic elixir that will cure all their maladies. And Then There Was Trump 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z These reasons tend to be pretty ridiculous, but so far they’ve been good enough to keep the rubes in line. Under Brownback, Kansas' credit faces another downgrade 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z “A lobster is an excellent choice,” she affirms, before deriding all the unimaginative rubes who have chosen dogs. The world in ‘The Lobster’ is dark and twisted, yet not so different from our own 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z I probably sound like a rube, a provincial unable to handle the big city. You wanna get to the top in New York City? You’d better have strong legs. 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Sixty years ago, “the smug style belonged to real elites, knowing in their cocktail parties, far from the ears of rubes.” Smug Alert 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z He either is delusional — convinced of his own “truth” — or thinks voters, like Trump University students, are rubes. Is Trump delusional or lying about the alleged battery of a female reporter? 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z It was a pivot from portraying Trump U. “students” as sad victims to portraying them as dumb rubes, but the audience loved it. Rubio is finally taking the fight to Trump. Is it too late? 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z It’s a deeply cynical but popular view, one that assumes that the rich are brilliant puppet masters and the middle class conservative base a bunch of rubes. Nutjobs are bankrolling Ted Cruz: His deep pockets prove that the donor class is no different from the right-wing crazies 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z No, these voters — despite the media caricature of them as stupid rubes — are far more sophisticated than that. CHARLES HURT: Donald Trump’s Corinthians misquote overblown by media 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Clooney may be a humanitarian, a tuxedo model prototype and a modern equivalent to Cary Grant, but his comic chops are never stronger than when playing a deluded rube from the minds of the Coens. Overrated/Underrated: Imagine a year without 'Star Wars,' and enough with cross-pollinating comic book films 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Hillary Clinton thinks we’re just a bunch of ignorant rubes, and we need to be governed by what she deems as moral and philosophical betters. Ted Cruz exploits the power of cultural resentment 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z So was born the Yogi caricature, of the triumphant rube. Yogi Berra, Master Catcher With a Goofy Wit, Dies at 90 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z She’s an obvious rube, a useful and backward hick who is being exploited by others for cash and votes. The raging sins of the persecution industry: Unpacking the hypocrisy at the heart of the Religious Right 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Spotting my host striding across the lobby was too much for this celebrity-smitten rube from Toronto. A Moment With Mr. Trump 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He thinks I am some low-life rube who only wants to be pandered to with fresh blood meat everyday. Jeb Bush is about to find out just what kind of Republican Party he’s dealing with 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Tuesday addressed the Associated Press’ now-deleted photos that caused a Twitter uproar, saying it’s “business as usual” that the mainstream media dismiss conservatives as “ignorant rubes.” Ted Cruz: Associated Press is Obama’s ‘most important Praetorian Guard’ 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z With any luck, their performance will remind the larger world that we are not a city of beer-goggled rubes who spend our days longing for a few kind words from Dan Le Batard. A Team With More Twists, and Grit, Than the Cuyahoga 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z As a rehabilitated rube myself, I feel sorry for her. The raging sins of the persecution industry: Unpacking the hypocrisy at the heart of the Religious Right 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Depending on your degree of cynicism, politicians who supported the war were either co-conspirators or innocent rubes. Editorials from around New England 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Are we the rubes and he’s the sharpie? Let Me Finish: Bibi Netanyahu's Speech to Congress 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z But the Washington, D.C. pundits who want to dismiss the Idaho rube as an outlier on women and reproductive rights might also want to take a look in the mirror. Vito Barbieri and Personhood Bill Backers Don’t Understand Reproduction 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Well, if you think that people are foolish enough to do this then yes, purchasing the stock ahead of the rubes is entirely rational. Cuba Shows That The Efficient Markets Hypothesis Is Wrong 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Yet in these typically heady times, investors, economists, and public officials dismiss such dangers, and see themselves as cleverer than those knaves and rubes from times past. The Risk of Financial Crisis Remains High 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Sen. Charles E. Grassley is fond of calling himself "a pig farmer from Iowa," but both friends and political opponents don't buy the country rube image. Charles Grassley brings charm, savvy to Senate Judiciary Committee 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Maybe that’s where Bumgarner is, in fact, the rube, at least in baseball circles — because he set himself and his family up for life, but didn’t maximize every last dollar he might cash. On baseball: Kansas City has no answer for Giants’ Bumgarner in World Series opener At this point I was no longer the rube who couldn’t tell plate from bullion. We Buy Gold 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The district attorney’s office reflects an attitude, that deep-blue Austin is better than bright-red Texas, and the rubes and yokels must be brought to heel. PRUDEN: Brutal politics in a not-so-gay place 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Abramoff and his cronies referred to the tribes as “troglodytes”, “monkeys” “morons” and “f’ing idiots” and laughed at the rubes who were paying them tens of millions of dollars to deliver basically nothing of value. GOP’s “toxic” laundering scheme: How echoes of Jack Abramoff are emerging 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The feelings of Americans with respect to "rubes" vs. "city slickers" are vastly more complicated than they appear at first blush. New York state of mind: how American sitcoms depict US cities 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Maybe McCallister sees himself as sort of culinary Messiah figure, incarnated to teach Dallas's meat-munching rubes just what vegetables are and how to eat them. In this age of culinary Messiahs, we're rubes who need to be taught how to eat 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z I asked for it back, and he looked at me for what I was: a rube. What my mugging in New York says about the city’s future I get the feeling if we do not think this is the greatest sporting event in the world and soccer is "the beautiful game" we are unsophisticated rubes. Clayton Kershaw's no-hitter is the greatest game they never saw 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z You can continue to mock us as hopeless soccer rubes on your cable television show. Americans Love Soccer Just Like It Is 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z That prompted a , along with subsequent condemnation from mainland Chinese fed up with haughty Hong Kongers looking down at them as unmannered rubes. In Hong Kong, It's a Privilege to Pee 2014-05-05T16:22:35Z It is vital, Mr. Sextro said, not to make Bob Ewell into some kind of joke, just a hick or a rube or a redneck. On Religion: A Play’s View of a Bigoted Past Holds a Mirror to a Violent Present 2014-05-03T00:35:26Z No doubt plenty of city dwellers are laughing at the rubes in ranching country over their disgust with the federal government... Is a rebellion brewing in Nevada? 2014-04-16T16:52:46Z When the ultraconservative Islamists first entered politics here two years ago, liberals called them Neanderthals for demanding literal-minded Islamic law, and the leaders of the Brotherhood wrote them off as neophyte rubes. Islamist Party a Surprise Force in a New Egypt 2013-07-08T02:08:24Z He’s a continental now, who’s going to teach us rubes how to enjoy the real football, even though we’ve been playing it for a century. Americans Love Soccer Just Like It Is 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z But a lot of people look at the Ricketts family as rubes. Tangling in the Shadow Of Wrigley’s Ivy Walls 2013-05-18T15:41:53Z It just sounds that way to the rubes. Austerity Strikes Back: Budget Hawks Regroup After the Reinhart/Rogoff Affair 2013-05-01T16:02:39Z So far this week, it has been playing pretty friendly, though Phil Mickelson has played it like a rube, putting his tee shot into the water two days in a row. The Masters 2013: Amen to that - why thrill-seekers flock to Corner 2013-04-13T18:45:46Z Once again, a new group of rubes got rolled by The Street. 10 inviolable rules for dealing with the sharks on Wall Street 2012-08-31T14:12:22Z These fans were not rubes, come to gawk at two of the high-power squads of Europe, taking their first tentative midsummer training in public. Sports of The Times: At Fenway, a Night of Soccer Not Sox, Totti Not Papi 2012-07-26T01:18:37Z It seems too good to be true, but the panel of judges at the Intel science fair are not rubes. Wait, Did This 15-Year-Old From Maryland Just Change Cancer Treatment? 2012-06-18T13:08:39Z As farfetched and even crazy as this may sound to those of us rubes who like to do more than just check in on with their smartphones, it’s apparently a longstanding obsession of the company. Why on Earth Would You Want a Facebook Phone? 2012-05-28T19:33:58Z You might think Minnesotans are just rubes who got conned into spending nearly a billion dollars on stadiums, but they're hardly alone. Column: Vikings get sweetheart stadium deal 2012-05-12T22:11:09Z I think that there probably are certain culinary dishes so universally admired, and so much a part of our global heritage, that you should be considered something of a rube if you haven’t eaten them. 7 Foods You Really Should Eat Before You Die 2012-04-18T10:30:01Z Engineering interlude: A rube goldberg machine inflates and pops a balloon in 300 steps. Wonkbook: On taxes, George W. Bush has won 2012-04-11T11:57:21Z Enter Robert, Bernard’s long-lost school pal, newly arrived in Paris and the very picture of a rube. | Connecticut: Marc Camoletti?s ?Boeing-Boeing? at Hartford Stage ? Review 2012-01-27T23:30:14Z Team executives would be gullible rubes with straw hats, overalls and sacks full of money. On Baseball: In Free-Agent Shopping, Temptation and Remorse 2011-12-03T19:27:28Z The Jew-controlled melodrama made the farmer a "rube," and Jew-made fiction presented him as a "hick," causing his sons to be ashamed of farm life. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z “You can’t run those businesses and be successful, and pretend you are a rube,” one said. Suit Throws Open Window Into Mets Owners? Holdings and History 2011-09-23T00:50:12Z He’s quite a hit with 10 these rubes. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z You can come up with any stupid position you want, but you also don't have to come up with any position at all until you figure out what the rubes want to hear. What the 2012ers' debt-deal statements actually mean 2011-08-02T13:01:00Z In the first film, the biggest rube in Radiator Springs hitched himself to famous race car Lightning McQueen and never let go. Two for the Road 2011-06-23T09:50:00Z I use the term "American rubes" only after my regular cavity-search at the border. Humorous advice from a Canadian on Stanley Cup viewing 2011-06-01T02:33:04Z After all, she was a mere country girl—a "rube" girl. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z And sometimes, successful Republican politicians begin debasing themselves to win the votes of far-right rubes well before they begin forming exploratory committees. Five signs your Republican governor wants to be president 2011-05-13T19:49:00Z Gold still had value as jewelry, of course, but as an investment it was purely for rubes. Magazine Preview: Gold Mania in the Yukon 2011-05-11T12:44:39Z This globetrotting spy adventure treats the race‑car–rube match as a love affair to be nurtured and cherished. Two for the Road 2011-06-23T09:50:00Z Being quite a ways behind, I had to make a dash for it, waving my magazine and hollering like the rubes from the country. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z Yet, given the Foreign Policy staff’s derisive commentary on Seymour’s Jan. 17 talk, you would think he was some credulous rube midway through his first Dan Brown novel. Seymour Hersh and the men who want him committed 2011-02-28T13:01:00Z Both D.C. activists bristle at what they describe as the media's cartoon portrait of tea party members as ignorant rubes and racist rednecks. For D.C.'s few tea party residents, home can at times feel like enemy territory 2011-02-13T05:28:00Z With the blessing of his fellow owners, he crammed temporary seats into Cowboys Stadium and the league collected $800 apiece from the rubes who were delighted to sit there. Greed is root cause of Super Bowl seating debacle 2011-02-10T00:29:20Z Yet it reminded him too well of her superior attitude towards the rubes from the stellar sticks. Sense of Obligation 2011-02-09T03:00:52.337Z As I edged up near him, reaching out for a magazine, he cast a cold, disdainful glance at me like the rube that's wise to the dangers of the great city. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z But she did; she wanted to brush it off the table, to see his flash of anger at its being soiled with the dust from “rubes’” feet— “Marvelous!” Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z “We were just a couple of rubes,” Mr. Estevez said, acknowledging how little he knew about what he and Ms. Magdevski were embarking upon at the time. Prototype: Growing Grapes as Part of a Real-Life Script 2011-01-22T18:58:59Z Some of them desire actual war with Islam as a fulfillment of prophecy, while others feed the rubes whatever poison is at hand. Coalition of fear: Tea Party, the religious right and Islamophobia 2010-09-19T18:01:00Z There's a bunch of speculators used to hang round the Forty-second Street telegraph office, with one eye always on the cop and the other always open for rubes. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole You don't show yourself as a provincial—what was the word?—rube, not when your culture, while temporarily the oldest, is in a lot of ways the most neophite of them all. Earthsmith Heaven knows it’s hard enough to get a good curl in these hick towns, with the rubes gaping at me wherever I go. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z You city boys call a country boy a rube and green just because his ways are different from your ways and he isn't wise to the things that you are. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp I didn't include Mr. Henty," she explained, "when I used to call you a rube, brother. A Canadian Bankclerk I tell you once more, you are too good for these rubes! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature The Rube—who is all that a rube should be—appears in a whole series of these stories and is a character you won't forget. The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields Besides, the barker seemed to like him, or at least to like immensely the bill which invariably passed hands when the showman and the glorified “rube” met. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z This guy, Sam says, was such a perfect rube he just naturally looked past him to see if there was a trail of wisps of hay on the floor. Seven Keys to Baldpate "One moment, please!" she says, very cold—givin' Alex a look that took in everything from his hick clothes to his rube haircut. Alex the Great If I've got to be run down by a taxi let it be on Broadway, not on a rube trail. Mixed Faces A rube––down from the hills he called it. Once to Every Man And his stentorian “Hey, rube!” struggled up through layers of dripping canvas, bringing speedy relief for the submerged “rube” and performer. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z Sold any new schemes for renovating the world to the up-state rubes? Seven Keys to Baldpate "Of all the rube burgs I ever seen, this here's the limit!" Alex the Great I always thought Joe was nice, and all that—but I read these here stories about the city fellers, and I seen the pictures in the magazines, and thought Joe was a rube. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure But we just stood there and stared like a couple of rubes. Arm of the Law “He saved my life,” Sally acknowledged suddenly, half-angrily, for she resented with childish unreasonableness the fact that it had been this mocking, insolent stranger, this “rube” from New York, not David, who had saved her. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z "There isn't such a tremendous scope for the poetic, when a rube wiggles out of his clothes right in the pulpit, you might say!" Sunlight Patch You was born and brung up in this rube burg called New York and the best you could do in thirty-five years was to get yourself foreman of a baseball team! Alex the Great You may be trying to fool me with this rube talk. Anderson Crow, Detective I'm a born rube, I guess; I like it out here. Otherwise Phyllis Better run along in now, and you might see how many of the rubes you can make follow you into the Palace of Wonders. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z You don’t know what a lot of jays and rubes I have to deal with. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton New York looked as cold and hard to me as it does to any rube that slinks in from the outlands, crazy with the desire to capture it. Alex the Great Actually that sickness no doubt changed her so that even if them rubes ever go to see high-class feature fillums there didn't nobody recognize her. Sundry Accounts With what fine contempt the 'rube' is surveyed by the faker who has plucked him! An Anarchist Woman You’ve got the figure and the looks and the personality for a musical comedy star, or Arthur Van Horne is the ‘rube’ that you carnival people call him. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z I'll get even with Rube some how!" he thought, angrily, "He's just a rube. Over the Line I'm goin' out to-morrow and show him how easy it is for a feller to get to the top in this here prize rube burg, provided he has now gumption and his methods is new. Alex the Great All off alone up there by herself in some little rube town it must come to her! Sundry Accounts He said something about “these rubes are smarter than they used to be.” Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Sally knew him, too, as a “schiller” whose principal job with the carnival was to impersonate an officer of the law when trouble rose between the “rubes” and any member of the carnival’s big family. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z You may be awkward; you may be a rube as they say; but you're a great scout just the same. Over the Line I'm supposed to be the rube, simply because I wasn't born on Sixth Avenue. Alex the Great The party with the whiskers gets up; and now, when he speaks I sees that in spite of him wearing a brush arbor, he aint no real rube. Sundry Accounts "Sometime they roll seven—and sometime they roll two," he remembered the words of a philosopher of the rolling rubes a year ago—or was it a lifetime? Stubble Now run, and for heaven’s sake, darling, don’t let these ‘rubes’ see you crying. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z The fellows think I'm just a rube, but I—I appreciate a pal like Cateye. Over the Line A feller with brains can always do that in these big rube towns like New York. Alex the Great Grasses, she said, and went on about wheat and corn and going out to the rubes. Greener Than You Think Gee! there's that rube I met up North. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 Carnival routine had already become an old story to Sally; she no longer minded the curious stares of villagers, the crude advances of dressed-up young male “rubes.” Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z The rube had been doing the work of two men most of the quarter. Over the Line Yet it reminded him too well of her superior attitude towards rubes from the stellar sticks. Planet of the Damned Galoot A rube A yokel—a heavy country fellow. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn But Penrhyn could borrow a rube outfit and escape from a farm. Torchy and Vee They were oldish-young women who sneered at the “rubes” and had calluses on the bottoms of their aching feet from dancing on rough board platforms. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z "Say something, quick!" whispered McCabe, who stood eyeing the rube, proudly. Over the Line "Look at all the rubes—if there is anything I detest, it is to be made conspicuous." Rosemary Alfred, as all other "rube" amateurs have done and always will do, wanted to engage to give the entire concert. Watch Yourself Go By Battalions from the prairies Now man the smoking tubes; From London and St. Marys, A regiment of rubes. War Rhymes by Wayfarer The show’s gotta go on and some of these rubes like her map. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z "That guy's cooked his goose at Bartlett!" declared Benz, feelingly, "And from now on, guys, he's just a plain rube to me!" Over the Line I'm a rube, and anything else you like. Steve Yeager If he is, and he's dirty, he could queer us in all these towns; he's been through here with two or three Jim Crow minstrel shows; these rubes imagine he's some pumpkins. Watch Yourself Go By Then I ambulates out among the rubes 'n' acts like I'm willing to bet on the bay geldin'. Blister Jones These rubes is lousy with coin and we’ve got to get our share. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z Surely you don't intend to keep that rube as a room-mate! Over the Line "And I serve notice right here that next time my young rube friend and me mixes you'd better bring a basket to gather up the pieces." Steve Yeager We are farmers, just rubes and hicks, as they say in my country. The Prairie Wife He beats it over to where another rube is settin' in a buggy. Blister Jones A month from now rubes like you'll be glad to crawl at my feet—an' wipe their dirty mugs on the hem o' that there woman's skirt.—Now listen,' says he. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story He could not allow himself to think of Judd being other than just a plain country rube and although mightily astonished at Judd's showing he passed it off finally with: "The lucky stiff!" Over the Line Now, what in hell did I take on this Yeager rube for? Steve Yeager My subjects probably found me somewhat of a rube. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s While me 'n' Peewee rides, you sashay out among the rubes 'n' get the coin down on whichever hoss we frames to win.' Blister Jones I'll tie you up with the rube from the West and send you up to Sing Sing as accessory. The Big-Town Round-Up This kept the rube from football practice and Benz could again star against the seconds. Over the Line It's patriotism, it's the flag, that gets the rubes. Makers of Madness A Play in One Act and Three Scenes Mis' Sproul," he said at last, "you take muddy roads, wet grounds, balky animils, fool rubes, drunken performers, and the high price of lemons, and the circus business is some raspy on the general disposition. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul "What's all them rubes got ribbons on 'em fur?" asked Blister. Blister Jones Yuh've heard the byes tell the story of the rube that tied up the Swede janitor on the Drive into a knot with his own hose. The Big-Town Round-Up "Don't you know, you rube!" hissed McCabe, joyfully, in his ear. Over the Line I had to kid him away from the subject of you—and then the big rube got so fresh—I had the awfullest time you ever saw, Jack, getting away from the fool. The Lookout Man "I had the rubes in the village on the run—you ought to have seen them stare as the chariot drove along." The Miracle Man That's the way it goes right along—the rubes stay away from it. Blister Jones Just now the approaching rube typified the world. The Big-Town Round-Up The rube was so well known and such a favorite by this time. Over the Line "You sure fetched that rube a wallop ... he let one croak out of him and flopped flat ... it would have made a good comic picture." Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Dis is a nice game de Doc's planted on me—he wants me to do de wiggle out dere fer de rubes! The Miracle Man She was a rube before she hit the big town and she says she can ride.' Blister Jones I spotted the senator from Fraser coming up our pedestrian elevator, and I know all those rubes that have been dropping up to see him—struck 'em all in the legislature. A Hoosier Chronicle They have some rubes in the U.S.A., but nothing quite so wild as this. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 7, 1917 We'll get the rubes to looking for him in posses, offer rewards. Twelve Men Come on now, Helena, buck up—we've got another little act due in about fifteen minutes—don't let a lot of yowling rubes get your goat. The Miracle Man A rube in a comic collar ambling aimlessly about Halsted Street, or State downtown. Half Portions "But what can you expect from a lot of rubes?" demanded Tom, rather angrily. Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box I'll have you understand that there are nine thousand people in the town I come from—and not a rube among them. The White Linen Nurse Keith and I thought he was just a fat, backwoods rube, but we got burnt, and burnt good. Scattergood Baines She goes on in my place sometimes—and say, them rubes applauds her as much as me, an' her stunts is baby tricks alongside o' mine. Polly of the Circus A rube in a comic collar ambling aimlessly about Halsted Street or State downtown. One Basket "Your rube is a wonder, and that's a fact," he said to me several times. The Redheaded Outfield "I've never thought much about it," said Bridge; "but at a time like this I rather hope so—I'd like to come back and haunt this bunch of rat brained rubes." The Oakdale Affair Could I go to New York dressed like a rube? Buttered Side Down: Stories He fell for it like a rube for the tapped-wire stuff. The Mucker P.S.—Kindly not send a rube, but a real smart man. The Gem Collector We're in bad, I know, but it's my judgment to pitch Hurtle, rube or no rube, and it's up to you to back us. The Redheaded Outfield The older saluted him with infinite respect, the respect of a shabby rube deacon for a well-dressed burglar. The Enormous Room "I guess you must of met some rube from home when you was out t' lunch." Buttered Side Down: Stories If she had her way, we’d tear down every marvelous rube goldberg in the Park and replace them with pristine white sim boxes on giant, articulated servos. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom "And I asked them," said Mr. McEachern, "I asked them particularly not to send me a rube!" The Gem Collector So, with the wonderful pitching of an angry rube, the Worcester team came into its own again. The Redheaded Outfield But this terrible looking rube grins and walks up to me, so help me God, and pulls back his lapel and shows me the big star. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago I don't know if he's chust a rube, or if maybe he's bad. The Call of the Cumberlands I could have bitten him, the sawn-off little rube! The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories I've got to do business with these rubes, maybe all my life. Poor White "I suppose some rube wants the desk for his sitting room," thought the Petria man lazily, his eye, keen as it was, failing to see the doctor in the crowd. Betty Gordon in Washington And he was just on the observation tower lookin' over the city in his rube way when I have to walk into him. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Does she live in the grey house with the pigs and chickens and all them roses, and the rest of the rube outfit?' The Man Upstairs and Other Stories Usually when a rube makes a winning he gambles or gets him a woman, but these hicks take their coin and buy banks…. Flowing Gold I got to get out and round up the rubes. The Rose in the Ring Tommy Gray was down here with two weeks' salary as chauffeur and a little extra he picked up playing poker in the garage with the rubes. Green Fancy And all this rube does is ride around in rubberneck wagons and take in the museums and parks, having no idee where I was. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago And—' 'Of all the rube joints!' exclaimed Peggy, in deep disgust. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories I guess any gosh-durned rube in these parts 'll know without being told what neck o' the woods I hail from. The Eye of Zeitoon "Let the rubes see what you really look like," added Signor Anaconda. The Rose in the Ring You've got all the time in the world to talk, and he hasn't more than ten minutes left to breathe unless that rube doctor gets here pretty soon. Green Fancy Some rube was always sure to pick out a stranger beating it down a empty road. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago You'll be going back to that rube joint, with the cows and hens—isn't that it?' The Man Upstairs and Other Stories P. S. Kindly not send a rube, but a real smart man. The Intrusion of Jimmy She said they urge the rubes to bring all the stock they can, because there's plenty of range left. The Flying U's Last Stand And just suppose some rube, all hooks of arms and legs and hands, is managing to stick on anyway, and the minute is getting near up. Michael, Brother of Jerry Well, pretty soon I pretty near run out of rube spots to take in. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago And then you'll get married and go and live in the rube house, and become a regular hayseed and—' She broke off suddenly, with a catch in her voice. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories Bud stops short, and the rube an' me stop. The Valley of the Moon "So I look like a rube, do I?" The Flying U's Last Stand It's like a fellow handing out a twenty-four karat gold bar to a rube by mistake, under the impression it only looks like one. The Flying U Ranch Foster, he thought, must certainly be scared of his wife, if he daren't show himself in this little rube town. Cabin Fever Somebody starts panning a rube crossroads, telling how he was there in 1900 and it consisted of one muddy street, count 'em, one, and nine hundred human clams. Babbitt Same time," said Babbitt, "no sense excusing these rube burgs too easy. Babbitt Of course you don't look like a rube! The Flying U's Last Stand |
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