Word: hillbillyism
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The mandolin lost popularity during the War. For a time stringed instruments yielded to brass and reed, chiefly the saxophone. Then touring Hawaiians brought in the cheap, easily played ukulele, the steel guitar with its throbbing, swooping tone which home musicians thought glamorous. By 1928 radio had cut into the...
Conventioneers were promised prizes for the largest orchestra, the orchestra which had traveled the greatest distance. Likewise this week there were to be banjo, mandolin, hillbilly, Hawaiian, junior, electro-phonic and popularity contests. To be seen and heard in Minneapolis were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of...
Reynolds of Asheville, who is seen oftener than any other member in the Senate gymnasium, who has been married four times in his 51 years. Generally credited with being the best actor in the Senate, Senator Reynolds last week continued unperturbed on his gregarious and convivial way about the capital...
The many readers who missed Fielding Burke's Call Home the Heart (1932) might get through several hands of A Stone Came Rotting without thinking they were sitting in on anything more antisocial than a game of hearts. But sooner or later they will realize that Author Burke'...
Aldrich, reserved, immaculate chairman of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, put on a pair of overalls at Minden, La., climbed into the cab of a locomotive on Mr. Couch's Louisiana & Arkansas R. R. Mrs. Aldrich boarded a coach and the train chuffed off to Hope, Ark. There...