What really started the corn sprouting on Broadway was a lugubrious tune by Louisiana's Jimmie Davis called It Makes No Difference Now. In the late '30s Decca's Recording Chief David Kapp heard this Texas hit and got it on wax.
But I safely put the street door on the jar and got behind the Major's blinds with my shawl on and my mind made up the moment I saw danger to rush out screeching till my voice failed me and catch the Major round the neck […]
The author, Mrs. Anne Gault Antoniades, an American long resident in Greece and familiar with its language, is competent to write about the Anastenaria not only because she can give an eyewitness account of the festival, but particularly by virtue of her keen interest in the Greek people and the study she has made of their folkways.
The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
