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Word: pianos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great displeasure of the crowd, or so it was manifested, the fire was under control in unusually short time, being confined early to the main room, where the furniture was completely destroyed, and the walls badly blistered. A piano and a handsomely mounted boar's head, which was subsequently thrown out the window, its mouth spitting flames, were other miscellaneous items that were destroyed. Damages were estimated variously, the amounts ranging around an approximate figure of $5,000. It was rumored late last night that the Club was uninsured against fire, so that the ultimate expense will fall upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iroquois Fire Draws Gala Crowd in Early Morning Festivity; Conflagration Conceived in Sin or Sorrow is Current Tale | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...rather mediocre performance at the B. F. Keith Memorial Theatre. They please with several sparkling songs and a few clever imitations. As of previous years the well known pair runs away with the audience. Their skill is manifested not only through their voices but also by performances on the piano and guitar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

...pressagented that Charles Ray, 38, is cultivating his high tenor voice for a career. According to one Alfredo Martino, a Manhattan teacher. Cinemactor Ray takes two lessons a day when in town. At present he is touring with a vaudeville act in which he sings and plays the piano. It is a comedy act but now the famed Ray grin is just a mask for a great and earnest purpose. He practices for opera in his dressing room with a portable, collapsible piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rumor Confirmed | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...guests may mingle, talk, admire the gilded Steinway piano where a Miss Grace Goodhue, tourist, tinkled roguishly one day when she could never have dreamed of becoming First Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Green '28, assisted by Miss Danise Whiting of New York, will give a piano recital, in the Living Room of the Harvard Union, on tomorrow evening, at 7.45 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Gives Recital at Union | 3/2/1929 | See Source »

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