Word: hillbillyism
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She also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with...
After years of trying, she got to sing a song on the daddy of hillbilly radio programs, Grand 01' Opry, over Station WSM at Nashville. Then she made a hit yowling Ground Hog with Frank Moore and His Log Cabin Boys over WHAS, Louisville. Moore named her Cousin Emmy...
First into the 1944 race for Tennessee Governor last week went the name of a hillbilly minstrel, Roy Acuff, 40, of Nashville. Fiddler Acuff insisted that his friends had put in his name, that he was still undecided whether to run. He thereupon resumed his fiddling, while his friends hoped...
The Democratic primary election is not until Aug. 3 of next year, so Acuff will have time to decide whether he wants to trade a reported $50,000 annual income for a $4,000-a-year Governorship. And Red Snapper Crump will have time to fish up another candidate. His...
Ever since blond, balding Dr. Willard Ellsworth finished his internship, he has been one of the house physicians at Manhattan's 2,200-room, jampacked Hotel Pennsylvania, right across from the Pennsylvania station. Trains leave the station for the doctor's native Missouri, but he and his hillbilly...