Word: hillbillyism
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The victor was tall, twangy, easygoing James H. ("Jimmie") Davis, 43, a fancy-dressing hillbilly tenor, and composer of such eminent sockeroos as You Are My Sunshine, Nobody's Darlin' but Mine, and It Makes No Difference Now. The losers were egg-bald 67-year-old Lewis L...
The Longsters asked Louisiana to return to "the liberal government of the late Huey P. Long." Jimmie Davis campaigned mostly by plugging his own sad ballads, moving around the state with his five-man hillbilly band, usually talking less than ten minutes before he went into his act. He sang...
Jesse Stuart, Kentucky's hillbilly poet-novelist (Taps for Private Tussie), father of one, passed his pre-induction physical examination.
Cursing the Vanderbilts, Astors, Goulds and their ilk, as well as the hillbilly Confederate Longstreets who claimed relationship, Grandpa was a tyrant who made Clarence Day's father seem effete. Whether or not he was actually "the greatest living American," he did have a variety of attractions: his memories...
Billings and Baptists. In spite of Cousin Emmy's lack of schooling, she is an astute businesswoman who knows how to demand and get the top billing which her rustic showmanship deserves. Says she: "I know and can prove that I outdraw Pappy Cheshire [a rival hillbilly] or anybody...