For thousands of farmers and small-town businessmen, Central Beet was Colorado, and to watch it fall from that high estate was painful.

Patient, painstaking, old-fashioned even in his style of penmanship, Junius Tharbel had the appearance of a small-town businessman who had spent his life in Darport.

West-Eberhard's mother was a primary school teacher, and her father, a small-town businessman, and as parents they encouraged her curiosity.

Mr. Brooks Kevin Costner struggles to remain relevant, starring as a beloved small-town businessman who harbors a secret identity (played by William Hurt) as a serial killer.

And then, like the James-Younger gang, they run into a bunch of farmers and small-town businessmen and get shot to doll rags.

"Joe's a small-town businessman, pretty straightforward; he wants to make a deal and leave," the lobbyist said.

John F. Kennedy College was founded in 1965 in Wahoo, Nebraska, one of six colleges started by small-town businessmen on the model of Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa.

We small-town businessmen and businesswomen offer that human touch.

He looked nothing so much as a small-town businessman, portly, balding, and wearing an inexpensive, rumpled suit.

"The Change in Union City" is about RC, a small-town businessman whose tyranny is brought to an end in a way that would surely please Gabriel Garcia Marquez.