Word: hayloft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Ozarks and onto the airwaves has come the greatest flock of hillbilly and western stars ever assembled. Its the "Hayloft Jamboree of '53 on WCOP," as the announcer joyously introduces it. For a full hour, the characters chew over drawls, and flawlessly read down-to-earth humor from down-and-out scripts...
...doubt the Jamboree is a bit of old Americana. But, with its musical hayloft at 170 Sheraton St. Plaza, it seems a trifle misplaced. Staid old Boston has banned better, it seems...
Caroline never lacks for playmates. When a "young giant" of a stagecoach driver hides her in a hayloft, she senses that he is "in no mood for preliminaries." Moments later, "a thousand tiny spears of hay [bite] into her bare thighs." At novel's end, sans husband or other encumbering alliances, Caroline cheats the guillotine by dressing up in a sailor suit and reporting for duty on a French frigate bound for America...
...anglers from New York direct to an Alaskan river which boasts trout as big as baseball bats; New England skippers would provide the picturesque discomfort of a sailing ship cruise on the open Atlantic for only $60; and many a summer hotel was advertising not only tennis, golf, and hayloft theatricals, but "cultural lectures" on Freud and Thomas Aquinas...