Word: pedalers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With his departure Washington-ward definitely in sight, the President for the first time opened the doors of White Court to the public and greeted callers. Delegations and individuals poured in by motor. By train, by street car and by the aid of his pedal extremities came Robert J. Taylor, 80-year-old bewhiskered Negro elevator operator, who has carried 15 Governors of Massachusetts up and down the Boston State House. The President, who was one of the Governors whom Mr. Taylor had levitated, shook his hand in amiable recognition...
...pipe organ that they play, but a crisp, living, leaping engine of wire strings and felted hammers. Such a dream-piano may have been made incarnate by InventorJohn Hays Hammond Jr., "smart son of a smart father", (TIME, Aug. 17, AERONAUTICS). Last week he gave his name to a pedal...
Inventor Hammond has perfected for the piano a device which enables the player to have control over notes after he has struck them. It is operated by a fourth pedal, the "Hammond Pedal", which opens and closes an arrangement of parallel revolving slats on the roof of the soundproof case much as the old-fashioned window-shutter was manipulated by its spindle. Since the case is soundproof, the tone can be built up within the pianoforte, its volume depending on the angle of the shutter) and allowed to escape at the will of the player. Again, the reflector can return...
Marcel the valet took cruel punishment in an Alaskan camp until he innocently shot four huge bears and taught the foreman la savate (pedal boxing...
...that have been placed in Widener. Emerson and other places for the purpose of drying one's hands. The first time I saw one I was distinctly impressed. Shining with porcelain and polished nickel they seemed the incarnation of this hygienic age. Expecting a scientific miracle, I pushed the pedal, spread out my dripping pans and awaited results. A low, dismal groan arose and a ghastly breeze numbed my fingers. I thought of Hamlet's father and my hands shook clumsily as though covered with gore. After three minutes intercourse with the departed. I dried my hands on my handkerchief...