Word: pianolas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the years, the Teutonic twins have not only prevailed against cannibals, Der Captain and myriad other adult oppressors, but have survived, as well, newspaper wars, two World Wars against Germany and the Pianola-to-TV revolution in U.S. taste. Today the jug-eared, saucer-eyed hellions mangle their foes and the language with the same sadistic glee that tickled readers' ribs in 1897.*Child psychologists and teachers these days deplore their influence; children love them...
Lieut. Dwight Eisenhower, 19th Infantry, U.S.A., and Miss Mamie Doud were married in Denver on a July afternoon in 1916. It was the time of the hobble skirt, the Pianola and the maxixe, the year that Woodrow Wilson won his second term as President by the margin of 3,806 California votes. It was a time of gathering tension, and because of trouble on the Mexican border, the Eisenhower-Doud wedding was held four months earlier than had been planned. The bridegroom, just promoted to first lieutenant, didn't have time to get new silver bars for his uniform...
Singer Margaret Whiting was born with a silver tuning fork in her hand. Her father, Songwriter Richard A. Whiting (Till We Meet Again, Japanese Sandman, Sleepy Time Gal) was already a big moneymaker in the Pianola, windup phonograph and battery-radio era of popular music. Her aunt and namesake, raucous-voiced Vaudevillian Margaret Young, introduced such ragtime hits as Nobody's Sweetheart Now and Way Down Yonder in New Orleans. Sophie Tucker was little Margaret's red-hot godmamma...