Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safely installed in the only really satisfactory public hall in the whole of Massachusetts Bay, Autry showed that at least one banjo player in these States was oblivious to the blandishments of partisan politics by refusing to budge for either the Republicans or the Democrats. Unofficially, Autry's price for stabling his cowpunchers for one evening was reported to be twenty thousand dollars. So the two candidates went elsewhere--Truman to the dark and looming caverns of Mechanics Hall, Dewey to the comparative intimacy of the Arena...
Unlike Henry Wallace, whom he admires extravagantly, Idaho's extraverted Senator Glen H. Taylor throws no boomerangs, chews no rutabagas. But he has his moments. Once he plumped his family on the steps of the Capitol and, banjo in hand, crooned a tune about how he needed a home. Last fall, he rode up to the Capitol steps on horseback, following a countrywide "peace" tour...
Rallying to the rescue of shopping-silly Radcliffe and Wellesley maidens of fifty years ago. The Ladies' Home Journal of December, 1897, suggested that they buy or make for their men friends 'crocheted lamp shades, a sponge bag, or a crimson flannel banjo case...
...Theodore Ward; produced by Eddie Dowling & Louis J. Singer) is one more earnest, inept effort to picture the U.S. Negro on the stage as something more than a banjo-strumming, hosanna-shouting field hand. This one examines the struggles of a group of ex-slaves who are trying to hold on to Civil War land grants on an island off the Georgia coast. Without money or political know-how, and bedeviled at every turn by villainous planters, the Negroes doggedly stick to their freedom-loving principles as the forces of greed move in to destroy them...
...Rosy Ridge (MGM) presents Van Johnson as a plumpish Barefoot Boy who wanders into Missouri's Ozarks and settles down with some folks named MacBean to help with the harvesting. Besides being useful around the house and barnyard, Van is quite a man with the mouth organ, the banjo, his larynx, and the ladies...