Word: hillbillyism
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New San Antonio Rose was evidence of a new factor in the U. S. song business. It was written by Texan Bob Wills, and recorded a year ago (in Columbia's hillbilly catalogue) by Wills and his Texas Playboys. It was a seller long before Tin Pan Alley heard...
Over the din of the dinner the Governor's hillbilly band, masters of The Long Ago, The Tramp's Mother, and the classic Beautiful Texas, played on the mansion steps. Fifteen women fainted during the serving. Dinner over, the crowd streamed through the mansion, shook hands with the...
Ignored during the campaign by both Presidential specials, publicity-loving Floridians consoled themselves with a sevencar special of their own last week. As backwoods crowds gathered by the tracks at Jacksonville, Green Cove Springs, Palatka, DeLand, Kissimmee, Tampa, they went aboard to see the candidates for their favor: four heifers...
Sadie Hawkins is an ugly manchaser in the comic strip Li'I Abner, which deals with life in the hillbilly village of Dogpatch. Other characters: Li'l Abner, a handsome hayseed; Daisy Mae, his shapely, briefly-clad admirer; Pansy Yokum, his mother; Lonesome Polecat and Loathsome Polecat, Indians...
Principal Crazy stockholder is thin-faced, black-eyed, ministerial Carr Pritchett Collins, chairman of the board and longtime crony of Texas' hillbilly Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel. With Brother Hal Houston Collins, president of Crazy, Stockholder Carr has a strong grip on Texas politics...