Word: piano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Lady of the present case will be remembered as the cheerful, tactful, tasteful college woman who compensated for the President's solemnity by her own sparkle, spontaneity, friendliness. While he was nasal in his office, she was melodious at the East Room piano. While he made a name by the negative means of vetoes and economies, she knitted the name into a quilt which will be at the White House when the Coolidge Era is ancient history. Her quilt, finished long before "I do not choose" was written, says...
...cycloramic epic of the Civil War, John Brown's Body (chosen by the Book of the Month Club for August). Said he, "I was not sure that it was a grand poem. I had worked over it for so long I felt I had given birth to a piano...
...Bunzlau, Silesian railroad town on the Sober River, one Eduard Kemp haled his neighbors around his piano. Playing the piano was his forte and he was going to play it for a long, long time. For hours he played. Neighbors gaped, yawned, went home to sensible featherbeds. Next day they found him playing erratically, and the next day more erratically. After 82 hours he ceased. Crazily he challenged the world for his peculiar competition...
Music-loving explorers may play or learn to play: harmonicas (Hohner), one player piano (Wurlitzer), one accordion (Hohner), one xylophone (Deagan), guitars (The Harmony Co. of Chicago), victrolas (Victor Talking Machine...
Forgotten Faces. She is sitting at a piano, playing idly. Suddenly, she stops; curls her fingers, tigress-like. There is a man standing near her. She seizes him, pulls him down on her lap, bites the back of his neck, twists a handful of his hair. Then she stands up, arches her spine, leads the man into a bedroom...