Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys picked up the phrase from a Brooklyn street squabble. They turned it over in their minds a bit, then, with piano, guitar and bass, tooled up a tune. By nightfall, "Nicholas, don't be so ridic'lus" was a song...
Before the first meeting ended Idaho's tent-show Senator Glen Taylor had yodeled and played his guitar, and Congressman Homer Angell of Oregon had urged the elders "not to despair or grow weary." But Dr. Townsend said not a word. He sat on the platform, twiddling his thumbs...
...Granite Hall on Saturday nights, Peggy's citizens dance to music from violins played by Fishermen Rupert Manuel and Vaughan Boutilier, an accordion played by Bus Driver Jordan Cook and a guitar played by Mrs. Cecil Caves. On Sundays, Peggy's citizens attend St. John's (Anglican) Church, where 83-year-old Fisherman Albert Crooks, known as the "mayor" of the community, pumps the organ. Each night, at dusk, Fisherman Manuel walks over the rocks to light the oil lamp in Peggy's lighthouse...
...first glance Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman John Grain Kunkel (pronounced Koonkul) is a very ordinary looking fellow. It is almost impossible to imagine Congressman Kunkel wearing a burnoose, strumming a guitar by moonlight, or joining the Foreign Legion to forget Dorothy Lamour. He wears spectacles, which would probably keep him out, anyhow. Congressman Kunkel is 48, a bachelor, 6 ft. 1 in., has grey hair, is shy, wears quiet clothes, and looks as though he enjoys reading railroad timetables...
Tony Piano '47, a trumpeter, leads five students in his small band. He is a senior who doubles on the guitar and piano, and hopes to make a future in music...