Word: smalltowner
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Largest music-boosting organization in the world is the National Federation ot Music Clubs. Its 400,000 women members range from smalltown Thursday Afternoon Choral clubwomen to sponsors of Metropolitan symphony and opera seasons...
Four Daughters is a family vehicle as slick and streamlined as a sedan just off the assembly line, as capacious as a 1925 touring car, as comfortably upholstered as a buggy. It concerns itself with the lives of four musical smalltown sisters, the Lemps, three of whom are Lola, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane. Gale Page plays the fourth. What the Lemp girls want and what they get are two different things...
Past Performance: 1) Smalltown lawyer (Paducah, 1901-05). prosecuting attorney of McCracken County (1905-09), county judge (1909-13), U. S. Representative (1913-27), unsuccessful candidate for Governor (1923), U. S. Senator (1927-39), Democratic national keynoter...
...Smalltown lawyer (Versailles, 1924-29), State Senate (1929-31), Lieutenant Governor (1931-35), Governor (1935-39) after beating Republican King Swope* by 96,000 votes...
...basic appeal is brutually direct. To smalltown bigwigs partial to Barkley he will say straight out, "By God, Jim, you've got to vote for me or I'll make it tough...