Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honest pleasures" if he tried. In town, a bus will take him anywhere for 2?, the best U. S, movies are shown a few weeks late for 8½?, and a good pair of shoes can be purchased at the open market for two pesos. He prefers his own guitar to a caterwauling radio and he wouldn't want an automobile if you gave him one. A car in Mexico is a liability. If he is ill, his good wife who invariably knows a great deal about herbs can buy the required dose at the market for a third...
...folksong that ranks close behind "Casey Jones." Judge Davis quoted the Dalhart version which Victor attributes to two other Virginians, Charles Noell and Henry Whitter who took Noell's poem, modified it a bit and sang it around on street corners and in plank taverns to a guitar and harmonica accompaniment. Dalhart made "The Old 97" go this...
...Last Round-Up" he tried something different. He used a gentle, monotonous rhythm to suggest the easy gait of the cowboy's horse. He broke the lyrics with instrumental interludes for the rider to get his breath, or, in the evening, to strum a bit on his guitar. He violated all Tin-Pan Alley tradition when he let his song ramble moodily along, instead of limiting himself to a cut-&-dried 32-bar chorus. But his publishers were not impressed when he gave them his manuscript two years ago, a rude affair with a simple melody line sketched...
...these manifestations were simply the performance of a master journalist-showman run away with by his own technique. Strangely mingled in Hearst were patriotism, the sense of power and a desire to sell newspapers, with the last dominant. Hearst always loved to entertain, with his own stories, songs, guitar, clog-dancing as well as lavish parties. His newspaper formula added Money, Sex and Patriotism to the old imperial adage about Bread and Circuses. In 1896 he plumped for Bryan and free silver. After the Spanish war he discovered he had gone too far in his formulistic excoriation of President McKinley...
Some exceptions: Giorgi Manuilov's able Still Life of a guitar, lamp, vase and apples. Two noteworthy American Indian mural paintings designed inside semicircle with legs at one end, symbolized heads at the other. Three drypoint etchings by John Taylor Arms, done with the smallest etching needle made...