Word: pedalings
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...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...
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...
...High. This show is like a pair of renovated shoes?its polish is new, its cracks are old. It flashes through a series of pedal acrobatics-farandoles, shuffles, clogs, hornpipes, jigs. Many light-legged ladies agilely provide that atmosphere of deviltry which always overwhelms the very old and the very young at the sight of 20 or more female limbs rapidly manipulated to music. Occasionally William Howard, comedian of the monocle school, advances to the footlights in order to lure back those holders of seats who have begun to make determined, surreptitious exits on all fours up the centre aisle...
...irate bicyclist, bottle in hand, sped along a Cairo street. A hundred yards from a big house he stopped, waited foot on pedal...