Word: rhymers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grants that a violinist is more than a fiddler, that an artist ranks above a painter of pictures, that a poet is superior to a rhymer, but these distinctions are based on certain gradations of value. Would the Association classify Sliding Billy Watson as a hobo of a bum and would Bozo Snyder qualify as either? The fine fraternity of the open road and box car is threatened with the caste system when one wandering gentleman calls himself by a sweeter sound than another. Neo-classicism is raising its head bums must beware the genre as well as critics...