Word: banjo
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...first fifty years of its life the glee club was an adjunct of the banjo and mandolin clubs. Professional coaches were hired to teach members to sing the "Stein Song" and "Down by the Stream Where I First Met Rebecca" and similar pieces...
...years later came the revolution; the glee club realized it could no longer serve both Bach and the "Bulldog on the Bank." To the consternation of undergraduates an dalumni alike, the club, led by the late Mayo A. Shattuck '19 separated from the banjo and mandolin clubs and stuck to choral music. Critics applauded the group "as the finest chorus in Boston" and the B.S.O. invited the HGC to give another joint concert...
...flawless playing of the recorder. But the biggest applause-getter of the evening was the Sonata for 'cello and harpsichord by Francoeur. The piece is full of piquant melodies, and despite the intricate finger work, Mayes handles his unwieldly instruments as if it were the size of a small banjo...
...last week told a House subcommittee about some of his generous acquaintances. Punctuating his testimony with such exclamations as "Oh, my soul... Lord have mercy . . . Lord God almighty," Caudle writhed on the witness stand, lifting his hands above his head, joining them as if in prayer and rolling his banjo eyes upward. In a cotton-thick North Carolina drawl, he denied that he had done any tax favors for the men who treated him so generously...
...young man with a banjo on his knee and a mind full of wisecracks. He began to "heel" for the Record,' and eventually became its managing editor. He wrote rambling comments for the Record ("We like Yale better than we do Harvard. Otherwise we would have gone to Harvard and liked it better than Yale"), and under the names of Sancho Panza and Guy Fawkes, some light light verse for the News ("Ruddy-fased the peepul go, Up to Plasid for the sno . . ."). Griswold's ambition in life: to be a writer...