Word: hillbillyism
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Sunshine Barn Dance broadcast, featuring the Governor and his hillbilly band.
Without the interruption of an impish, hillbilly doggerel song (Round and Round Hitler's Grave) Triumph's unrelieved pounding at its worthy message (internationalism) sometimes takes on the sound of an hour-long lecture; and occasionally, with the best intentions in the world, it is mawkishly patronizing about...
Senator W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniell, Texas' professionally folksy hillbilly, rubbed jampacked Washington on its sorest nerve by buying a four-story, 14-farnily apartment house near the Capitol. Ordering eviction of all the outraged present tenants, Pappy explained: "Texans like a little room to move about. We...
One evening in February 1942 Harper & Brothers' Board Chairman Henry Hoyns tuned in on We, the People, heard the easygoing drawl of a preacher recounting his experiences in the Ozark Mountains. The publishers promptly asked the parson to write his autobiography. Last week it was published. Walkin' Preacher...
After reading about Governor Jimmie Davis of Louisiana riding into office on the wave of his hillbilly songs, it occurred to me that Governor Dewey might well use the same tactics. We all know that he has a well-trained baritone voice, but few have heard it. Not that his...