Word: accordioned
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...also jampacked with minor characters, ranging from a sailor who takes his accordion to bed with him ("It takes up less room than a woman and sounds a hell of a lot better") to suave -Lord Kelvinston, who subsidizes the ballet and reeks of "inbred irony." You and I has amusing moments and non-stop action, but somehow it seems just to have been poured...
...Virden, an Episcopal Army chaplain's wife, who assigns classic-minded musicians to practice rooms on the second floor, and jam fans to the third floor. The resultant uproar from the 28 unsoundproofed cubbyholes usually involves the trial flights of several singers, a dozen pianists, a hot accordion, strings and horns, all at once. One soldier motorcycles up from Ft. Belvoir (Va.) for violin lessons from Author Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus...
There was rarely any money in the Norris home. Young George remembered well the day the first coal-oil lamp arrived. He gathered and shelled hazelnuts for months to earn enough money to buy an accordion. When he got it, the first tune he played was Jesus, Lover of My Soul...
...stayed with her -out of an original total complement of more than 3,000-still manned her. Gehres would allow no one else aboard. He issued beer. An octette of Negro mess-men and other talent, with a band of pots & pans, an accordion and a cornet, put on a pathetic and courageous show-"The Franklin Frolics." For four days they rested in Pearl Harbor, then sailed on for Panama. On April 26-after 38 days and 13,400 miles-they dropped anchor at last in New York's Gravesend...
Gypsy has traveled the theatrical road since 1917, two months after she was born in Milwaukee. Her Russian musician father and Egyptian mother-gypsies both -took her to China, India and Europe (where on cold nights Gypsy slept with the bear cubs). At 14 she was playing a secondhand accordion in a Chicago nightspot. She has played in Paris, in Sweden (before King Gustaf), in Egypt (before Farouk), in Washington (for President Roosevelt...