Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstrable sophistication in female companionship as evidenced by suggestive letters, the dignity and poise that come to some men after long years of prison life, participation in a spectacular crime, riot or escape, a great capacity for eating, the ability to turn handsprings, seduce younger men, and play a guitar...
Instead of getting a chance to play in the show, Willow Joe is sent off on a fantastic publicity stunt, a ten-day trip down the Mississippi on water shoes, playing a guitar. Unlike his half-dozen drowned predecessors, Willow Joe makes it. Then he lands in prison for shooting a man. His luck gets worse & worse. Then he becomes a hero in a big flood, is rewarded with a nice farm in the hills. But come summer, the Pennys start complaining- even the clock "ain't been ticking natural" -and sneak back happily to the storms, floods, fever...
Utilizing jazz rhythm, the work calls for a great deal of variety of percussion instruments, and for its melodic passages, three saxophones and a Hawaiian guitar...
...WITH THE BLUE GUITAR & OTHER POEMS-Wallace Stevens-Knopf...
...that comes in at the White House to do some work and plays not only the piano but the accordion and the guitar . . .? Could it be Tommy Corcoran, White House Tommy, as they call him in Washington . . .? If this deduction be correct, it is proposed that next time after the gentleman who plays the piano has come in to do some work, the billing for the fireside chat be changed to read as follows: 'Thomas Corcoran will address his subjects on the state of the nation tonight through the courtesy of the broadcasting companies and the President...