Word: accordion
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...which read like the imagined adventures of the veriest romancer. The loss of the Seeadler and his further adventures in the Pacific, the description of the life-boat armed and converted into a raider crossing a thousand miles of open ocean to the wheezing and blaring of an antique accordion, and his ultimate escape from the English in a stolen officer's uniform would tax a reader's credulity if they were not already matters of record...
...Lind '29, will be the violin soloist of the evening, while Benjamin Brewster '27 will play the accordion and C. S. Henderson '28, will entertain as usual at the plane. K. A. Perry '28 will vocalize and Ogden Goolet '29 will perform in the specialty acts...
...latest of Artists and Models is a good show no matter how many leaves are used. The Hoffman girls are talented; they fence, dance, sing, and climb ropes, artistically if to no good purpose. There is plenty of humor, most of it supplied by Phil Baker--he of the accordion...
...annual show last week was one of $1,500 given by Patron Frank Granger Logan, retired grain broker, the Institute's assiduous vice president. This sum they presented to Painter George Benjamin Luks for his strong, broadly painted, modernistic study of a male native of Cuba operating an accordion. Another $1,000 from Patron Logan went to Painter Charles Sydney Hopkinson for a study of himself and his family...
...criminologist. He had done some carpentry as a boy, but was not worth 25¢ a day as a carpenter. No, he had never played poker.' He had not taken a drink in 15 years. He danced, but did not enjoy it much. He did not play the accordion or any instrument, except the concertina...