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Word: doppel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, gerohrgedeckt, Oh, Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, ge-doo. The leonine head and thick-lensed spectacles of Archer Gibson, private organist for Charles Michael Schwab, bobbed over the keys of a small portable organ. The broad back of Author-Aeronaut Samuel Taylor Moore (Hetty Green) rose and fell over the pump-handle projecting from the organ's side. Some 80 tycoons, lesser businessmen, artists and writers boomed out their official anthem (chorus given above*) to the rhythmic accompaniment of pounded beer mugs in a big private dining room of the Hotel Brevoort, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pumpers | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...Tune: "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush." Theme: doppel-rohrgcdeckt, the name of the organ-stop that produces a flute effect. Gedickef is meaningless, inserted to jingle. * Enlarged to book form: THE PIPE ORGAN PUMPER * Greenberg, New York, 70pp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pumpers | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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