Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that's how Hootenannies began, according to Woodrow Wilson ("Woody") Guthrie. Last week one of the shoutin'est Hootenannies ever was held in Irving Plaza's faded second-floor dance hall a block from Manhattan's Union Square. On stage were 20 folk singers with guitars, mandolins and harmonicas. In the audience were 1,000 men, women & children (some also with guitars) who sang along with them. Smallest and loudest of them all was curly-haired Woody Guthrie. He sang...
...Truman gained a partial victory, however, when the Senate approved a provision granting housing expediter Wilson W. Wyatt $600,000,000 for subsidies to producers of scarce building materials...
...Frank Wilson Dunn...
...Edmund Wilson, whether he liked it or not, was safe from the horrid publicity of a Boston book-banning. His Memoirs of Hecate County with its bedroom blueprints would not outrage Boston, because Doubleday publishers decided not to bother sending it there...
Godless Novelists. " 'When can we expect another Brideshead Revisited?' Dear ladies, never. ... I have already shaken off one of the American critics, Mr. Edmund Wilson, who once professed a generous interest in me. He was outraged (quite legitimately by his standards) at finding God introduced into my story. I believe that you can only leave God out by making your characters pure abstractions...