Word: accordions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere, moreover, which pervaded the Garden Monday was not that of basketball but of a carnival. The feature attraction was played between a galaxy of vandevile acts, most of them so bad that they haven't been on television yet. There were jugglers, acrobats, gymnasts, accordion players, to al., on the program and the crowd loved them all. They clapped furiously at everything, except the game...
...believe Frederi-ka's seams were ever straight," said one teacher), the German princess seemed in many ways as American as her schoolmates. They called her "Freddy" and even "Fried Egg," and often gathered in her room to help her wrestle with the groaning accordion she sought to master...
Elaine (Percy Faith's orchestra with oboe solo by Mitch Miller; Columbia, also Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra with musette-accordion solo by Henri Rene; Victor). One of those bittersweet tunes from a French movie (Violettes Imperiales), on which both companies lavished top performers. The Columbia version has Miller's familiar buttery oboe tone; Victor presents Winterhalter in one of his loud moods, with plenty of braying horns...
...window on Paris; there will be small conference rooms, a bank, workshops, two restaurants, doctors' offices and libraries. On the ground, the architects plan a mosaic-tiled pool, a delegates' patio, and off to one side a squat conference building with a large auditorium and a radical, accordion-pleated roof so strong that it needs only one line of interior pillars for support...
...seventh and most subdued of the movies ground out in the last three years by the zany comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.* Stressing story instead of unadulterated slapstick, The Stooge plays it for chuckles rather than belly laughs. Dean is a song & dance man with an accordion and a swelled head, who is only a dim light on the Great White Way until lame-brained Jerry becomes his comic foil...