Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Benson, British, is married to an Irishman and lives in Manchuria. She raises hounds, plays the guitar...
...something too glib, a derived accent. A jury of critics would have chosen it; the Carnegie's jury of painters gave it only an honorable mention, as they gave Antoine Faistauer's exceedingly competent "Old Village, Menton" and John Carroll's pretty illustration "Man With Guitar." (Would it, one critic demanded, have been too laborious to call this picture "A Man With a Guitar"?) Only a jury of painters would have discerned the subtlety of Ferrazzi's tall Italian woman, by far the best picture in the exhibition, which by an odd chance received first prize...
Mandolins, mandolas, guitars, violins, cellos flutes, clarinets mando-cellos, and bass violas are all needed for the Mandolin Club. Many of these instruments along with piccolos, trumpets, trombones, saxaphones, and drums are used in the Banja Club. The Gold Coast Orchestra is made up of a select group of players to provide the dance music for after the concerts. The Specialty Division offers ample opportunities for first rate vaudeville acts. Clog dancing, juggling, sleight of hand, ventriloquism, crayon drawing, along with xylophone, Hawaiian guitar, ukelele, and accordian playing are desirable...
While a ten-year-old boy played on a cornet, they elected a patron saint-Benjamin Franklin-even though the printers and the Saturday Evening Post already have his memory enshrined. Franklin played on the violin and guitar, composed a few conventional songs, and invented a long-obsolete musical instrument, the "armonica."* The musical chambermen found these facts decisive...
...were cutthroats to the last gurgle. But his diablerie was so debonair, his ruthlessness so discriminating, that the Latin citizenry of New Orleans around 1800 could not take offense when he came boldly ashore to do business with them and dance with their daughters to the wailing guitar. In 1812 the British tried to buy him up to betray his favorite port. He pondered. He was Jean Lafitte, outlaw. The northern barbarians who ran the country of which New Orleans was but an exotic new part, had set a price on his head. Nevertheless, honor told him that his hosts...