cornballs

The Ivy League is just an excuse to get football players for nothing and get them to be American cornballs enough to make America sick for a thousand years.

Football (soccer) and American football quotes # 1 Rene Meertens 2010

The Ivy League is just an excuse to get football players for nothing and get them to be American cornballs enough to make America sick for a thousand years.

Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010

Even when they hold liberal political views, they sometimes come off as reactionary cornballs, because of the way they extend our native mythology of salty, slightly cranky individualism.

American Everyman 2004

Even when they hold liberal political views, they sometimes come off as reactionary cornballs, because of the way they extend our native mythology of salty, slightly cranky individualism.

American Everyman 2004

He hurried back to the kitchen, too, poured the residue of the boiled molasses upon the popcorn and they made up the cornballs at once.

Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

Jennie began popping corn with which to make cornballs of the taffy that could not be run into the three pans of nuts.

Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

Burns and Jack Harvey; and he and Joe Warren ate more than any four others, and Young Joe, who had absconded with the most of a huge mince pie, left over from the dinner, was found afterward groaning on the kitchen sofa, and had to be dosed with ginger and peppermint, so that he could partake of cornballs and maple candy later on.

The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Ruel Perley Smith 1903

"Go back to campus, you new jack cornballs," one outraged commenter demanded.

NYT > Home Page By DAVE ITZKOFF 2011

On Friday, she did five events including an evening rally in which she threw cornballs into the crowd and jitterbugged with her husband, Marcus, on stage.

The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Chris Cillizza 2011

Back in 1985 the pop charts gave "We Are the World" male stars like Bruce Springsteen, James Ingram and Willie Nelson, and even the cornballs - Steve Perry of Journey, Kenny Loggins, Huey Lewis - could sing.

NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2010