Word: masons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...half. Most familiar is the Chickering, whose owners included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Teddy Roosevelt. Francis Scott Key played The Star-Spangled Banner on a Knabe; Lyndon Johnson has a Knabe, and Bobby Kennedy a Chickering. Other Aeolian pianos, built at seven plants in the U.S. and Canada, include Mason & Hamlin, Fischer, Pianola, Weber, George Steck, Duo-Art, Cable, Hardman Peck, Winter, Kranich & Bach, Ivers & Pond and Mason & Risch...
...future lay in high-quality, high-priced models. They bought back the piano interest from Sears in 1941 for a mere $180,000 and merged with Aeolian American Piano Co., long a leader in the quality field. Today prices range from a high of $7,250 for an ebony Mason & Hamlin concert grand to a low of about $400 for a 64-key spinet upright. After years of lagging popularity for the old player piano, the company in 1956 revived the Pianola, last year's most popular item, with 3,500 sold...
...Mason Hammond is the stalwart professor of "Gladiators," as his winter course in Roman History is known. He has got a fascinating subject in "The City in the Ancient World," and he is reputed to be even more delighted in a seminar-type course than he is on the podium. This course, by the way, should not be overly rugged...
...Mason City, Iowa
Unfortunately the most interesting angle in Hurry Sundown -- the Caine character and his giant industrial complex, symbolic of the sudden change coming over the South in the wake of the war -- is ultimately lost beneath a rubbish of uninteresting violence and melodrama. A trial scene straight out of Perry Mason (via Horton Foote and To Kill a Mockingbird) works by itself but doesn't jell at all with the rest of the picture. A hopelessly embarrassing songfest, at which the town's entire Negro population is conveniently present, reminds one of similar affairs in Marx Bros. movies...