Word: pedals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repaired during the intermission, Piano No. 1 was wheeled forward and Casadesus undertook a Chopin ballad. Before he had got through 20 bars the pedal dropped off again. Pianist Casadesus leaped up, wrung his hands, sobbed, "I'm sorry," bolted backstage for the attendants. Only one attendant could be found, so Casadesus had to help him push back Piano No. 1, bring forward No. 2. While they were straining with No. 1, a leg fell off. Half hysterical, the pianist put it back on. He was about to sit down at the relief piano when an unidentified clergyman seized...
More than 3,000 music lovers packed the Municipal Auditorium, sat enthralled as Pianist Casadesus rippled through Scarlatti, were breathless as he began a Mozart sonata, suddenly winced when the piano's right pedal dropped off. Flinging his hands wide apart, Pianist Casadesus shrugged pathetically, ordered attendants to wheel the piano upstage, concluded the sonata on the house piano...
...closed and the catalogs are on the presses this precious rubbish can be sold as waste paper. Because of all this mummery publicity men for the two houses have rough going. They must be extremely chary about the sort of figures they release, may be told to soft-pedal at anytime by their bosses...
When His Holiness Pope Pius XI observed last Easter much more quietly than heretofore (TIME, April 13), the U. S. Catholic press was at pains to soft-pedal the fact that the Holy Father's health had anything to do with it. Last week, however, the Vatican household felt vastly relieved when at 6:30 o'clock one evening three automobiles rolled away bearing the 79-year-old Pontiff and a small retinue to Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer snuggery in the cool Alban Hills. Leaving the muggy Vatican a month earlier than usual, Pius XI planned...
...Baltimore before 10,000 Young Democrats, the President confounded those who had predicted that until election day he would abandon attacks on business, would soft-pedal talk of new reforms. Said he of industry...