Word: lowbrowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poet colleague of Fielding named John Gay decided to take Italian opera for a ride. He picked his tunes from the songs the butchers & bakers sang, strung them on a lowbrow plot about London cops, gangsters and bums, made his tattered characters ape the flouncy foibles of London's diamond horseshoe. His musical show, The Beggar's Opera, became London's biggest...
Climax of the evening came when the temple-dancers forgot about the temple, and swung out in a lowbrow song & dance from modern Bali, accompanying themselves with corny, Hawaiian-style music on a steel guitar and a couple of mandolins. Though purists complained it was not according to the Sanskrit, the bronze-skinned Balinese broke down and grinned, swayed like jamming jitterbugs, wailed a torch song or two, and showed that East is meeting West as fast as the flicker of an exported Hollywood movie...
Editor Woods philosophically decided that: 1) circus and press are comparable enterprises, except that the circus is "a lot saner"; 2) circus folks are not lowbrow, because he heard no vulgar remarks, little profanity in the tents, because they were eager to discuss such things as the labor situation, which they agreed was worse in Washington than in any other State in the union...
...University is "Saturday's Millions"; I can say little in its favor. If you wish to learn how a western football team is managed--according to Hollywood--you will enjoy wishy-washy "Saturday's Millions." Robert Young does his best to convince you that football is commercialized, lowbrow, not worth it all, and then after the last big game he changes his mind. One thing I can say is that Hollywood tries to fool you. A young night-club hostess tells the great football start that she is in trouble. Do not be deluded; she merely has a husband...
Last month the Saturday Evening Post returned to reviewing books after a lapse of some 20 years, under the heading: "The Literary Lowbrow - Who Reads for Amusement." Lowbrow was Donald Gordon, 30, a shrewd reviewer and sales analyst for American News...