Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a richly furnished room overlooking the lights of Washington, the Vice President of the United States danced a little solo to the strains of an accordion and a guitar. Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder and Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson beat time, grinning appreciatively. With the Italian ambassador and the others, Senator Tom Connally and Colonel Louis Johnson, the new Defense Secretary-to-be, caroled My Old Kentucky Home and The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You. Mrs. Perle Mesta, all gotten up in a brown net Dior dress, was entertaining at "Uplands...
...Senator need worry at a Mesta party if he cannot quote Oscar Wilde, if he thinks Picasso is a ham & eggs painter, or is unable to pronounce the name of French Premier Queuille. In the new, hearty Mesta milieu, the lorgnette has abdicated to the guitar. Said a friend: "You go to a great many beautiful formal houses here where people barely speak above a whisper. You go to Perle's, and you know it's going...
That night TV went to the Inaugural Ball, reported drama in the hush before the President's entrance, when a sea of faces turned toward the presidential box and the only sound was the faint worrying of a guitar's strings as the Marine Band waited to strike up Hail to the Chief...
...also a singer. Last month, traveling with the presidential party on a long, dusty train ride back to the capital from the interior, Evita Perón said: "Ivan, why don't you sing us a bolero?" The courtly, white-suited, white-tied Secretary dug out a guitar, swung into a popular number called Luna Lunera...
...section in this garb may appear difficult, it will be nothing strange to Elke, who has an established reputation at Stanford for doing the bizarre and difficult. Among his accomplishments are a full-fledged but unofficial rally for the Bridge Team and the political maneuvering of an unknown local guitar player into a leading candidate for student council president...