Word: pianola
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...coated dandy and his feather-boaed wife. A tandem bicycle with a boomer girl in front, a Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole as Sappho, Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks, Maude Adams as L'Aiglon. First editions of When Knighthood Was in Flower and an autographed photograph of John Philip Sousa...
...wherever he felt a pain. Several days later the doctor called to ask for the paper. The man turned to his wife who turned to her daughter. "Do you mean the piece of paper with all the holes in it?" the daughter asked. "Why, we put that in the pianola and it played 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past...
...investor in the new company was Aeolian-Weber Piano & Pianola Co. which controls companies making pianos (Weber, George Steck). Last week plans were almost completed for a merger of Aeolian-Weber's subsidiary, Aeolian Co.. and American Piano Corp. under the name Aeolian American Corp. Both companies and the 20-odd concerns they control will remain intact...
Died. Edwin Scott Votey, 74, first vice president of Aeolian Co., inventor of the pianola player-piano and the first Aeolian pipe organ, director of many a musical instrument company; in Summit...
Among the other things which were discovered when the total came to be reckoned up were 29 victrola records, five pianola rolls, one telephone directory, one radio lond speaker, and one ton of magazines, mostly Saturday Evening Posts and Lampoons...