Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Groton, Conn., 107 of 1,900 workmen in the plant of Electric Boat Co., manufacturers of submarines for the U. S. Navy, sat down. They passed one day in pleasant converse, whiled away the evening listening to the music of banjo and guitar. Shortly after midnight the plant superintendent appeared at the door and announced: ''All you fellows are fired!" He was followed by 50 State police who arrested all the strikers under warrants for trespassing. The strikers got up with good humor, took their banjo and guitar and marched through the deserted streets to police court. There...
...banana-laden tropics with the hard commercialism of the North and to show how each needs the other. When Stokowski gave the ballet its world premiere in Philadelphia five years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932), he had dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where the mermaids are supposed to interrupt ship routine, two catchy...
...example, had a larger capacity for beer and a greater ingenuity at general hell-raising than almost any Greenwich Villager before or since. Yet the two little girls dancing to a barrel organ in last week's show, or the puzzled baby watching her bald father play the guitar, are blameless bits of conservative painting. The mere fact, 30 years ago, that these men were attempting to paint the life around them, instead of duchesses in pearls, goddesses in Greek draperies, or New England valleys in a pink mist was enough to deny them admission to most galleries...
...battling Satan on her own hook, speaking over the radio, packing 1,600 people at a time in her new, small International Interdenominational Church, sermonizing on such subjects as "I Turn My Back" and "Tomorrow's Headlines" while her aged mother, a Salvation Army Lassie, strummed the guitar...
...Union Square Theatre. He was still a boy when he met Violinist John Douglas, the talented son of a Negro slave who had studied at the Paris Conservatory but could not get an orchestra position because of his race. Douglas was eking out a living with his guitar, gave young Mannes free violin lessons...