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Word: pianists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arrived in Vienna one Carl Tucker, Manhattan pianist. He told how one Bill Cannon, Standard Oil Co. driller, had ignited through friction the deepest oil well at Moreni, Rumania. Cannon immediately ordered all the men to leave the danger zone. As he himself fled from the roaring flames, an angry Rumanian crowd attacked him for causing the fire, now rapidly spreading. Cannon's revolver, however, cowed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Gushing Fire | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...fortnight ago, Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist and onetime (1919) Premier of Poland, was lured to Salisbury Square, London, where is situate the Press Club. In this building, whose walls have heard many a famed man, M. Paderewski opened his speech on Poland by telling the well-known "elephant story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Speech | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...Buckingham went Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist-composer and quondam Premier of Poland. From Buckingham Palace came Sir Ignace Jan Paderewski, Knight Grand Cross of the Eminent Order of the British Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Jul. 6, 1925 | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...thought-rhythms of potentially delinquent minds-these, the charivari of most children's exhibitions were notably absent. Instead, one child, 6, a musician and a draughtsman who had already given a public concert, reproduced the impression made by the auditorium upon the mind of a performing pianist-vast, silent gulfs of listening space in which the black instrument buzzed like a fly in a funnel. Another virtuoso had painted from memory his conception of a pterodactyl seen in the Natural History Museum. Hardly a drawing, a painting, a piece of sculpture, failed to reveal the record of personal experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Fritz's Children | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

Later, in the early hours of the morning, the Majestic steamed down the bay and out to sea with a cargo of celebrities: Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian pianist; Clarence Dillon, who recently paid $146,000,000 for the Dodge Motor Car Co (TIME, Apr. 13); Colonel James A. Logan Jr., who has been unofficial onlooker for the U. S. at nearly every pow-wow of European diplomats for the past few years, and his bride (see MILESTONES) ; Miss Belle Baruch; and the unobtrusive Miss Collins, quietly sleeping in cabin F53-54 with a bunch of white gardenias reposing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miss Collins Abroad | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

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