Word: hillbillyism
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¶Any competent hillbilly who can raise $172 and railroad fare may matriculate at Berea College in the Kentucky mountains, where work for all helps keep expenses down. But the average Berea freshman spends $202 a year.
Hillbilly songs were already nationally popular and that day Jimmie Rodgers became the greatest hillbilly of all. Tired, unshaven, racked with tuberculosis, he twanged his guitar, sang and yodeled ''Sleep, Baby, Sleep." Victor made a record of it. Within a year it sold more than 1,000,000...
"The Wreck of the Old 97" was in the courts again and thus last week did Judge J. Warren Davis begin his opinion in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. What Judge Davis had to decide was whether or not David Graves George, a spare, hollow-cheeked...
The real marvel of "The Last Round-Up" is that a tune so true to the old cowboy song-tradition should have been written, not by a cowboy, but by a hard-working popular songwriter, a South Weymouth, Mass., boy who went to California when he was 18, got a...
The whole story, not simply the dialog, is told in hillbilly tongue; the cumulative effect is to make The Woods Colt a prose folksong. Just before the shot that ends his story Clint takes a last look at the woods where his parents got him: "They're mighty purty...