Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole, almost as dull an existence as the stolid, rich little city of Haarlem in which he spent most of his life. His talent was early recognized. He worked very hard, made a great deal of money, kept little of it. Because of his fondness for painting guzzling guitar players, beery burghers, laughing children, biographers have endeavored to make the domestic hard-working Frans Hals into a lowland Cellini. He is important because, while his greater contemporary Rembrandt was a universal genius who might have lived in any country, Hals was first & last a Dutchman, content to record beautifully...
...Lead," "Trigger Tempest." He may correspond and exchange cowboy songs with Miss Billie Arnette of Troy, Ohio, who is 5 ft. 7 in. with light brown wavy hair and grey eyes and belongs to the "Pen Pards" of Western Trails. By answering advertisements he may learn to play the guitar in ten minutes, break himself of the tobacco habit, sell tear-gas pencils to his friends, discover how to have a baby, learn to be a Secret Service...
...Belly was released from prison on Aug. 1. Month later when Mr. Lomax was sitting in a Texas hotel he felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Lead Belly, saying: "Boss, here I is." His knife bulged in his pocket. In his hand was a rickety green-painted guitar held together by string...
...sing vocal choruses for the Gold Coast Orchestra is the largest of the special singing units. There are also two quartets, one of which will sing "Gay Nineties" medleys, and the other close harmony pieces. One soloist, Henry B. Robbins '36, will render comic songs, accompanying himself on the guitar...
...guitar solo by John P. Ayer '37, and a banjo duet by Franklin P. Whitbeck '35 are from the instrumental diversion, while Edwin G. Davis '38, will play classical selections on the piano...