Word: player
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tiens, Messieurs!" he cried with an engaging smile, "ne tirez pas au pianiste! Don't shoot the piano player! Il fait de son mieux. He's doing the best he can. That, gentlemen," he added confidentially to his somewhat mystified hearers, "is an American argument. That is what they used to say in American frontier towns. Voyons, Messieurs! With what do you reproach me? The only two laws which have been passed since my Government came into office [TIME, Nov. 11] had the support of five-sixths of the Chamber. Shall I make another argument...
...been common knowledge that the phonograph and the radio were proving themselves formidable rivals to the piano. Long has American Piano unsuccessfully attempted to fight this rivalry. At the height of phonograph popularity in 1922. they bought the J. & C. Fisher Co. and Amphion Co., manufacturers of player-piano actions. Following acquisition Amphion perfected the Ampico reproducing attachments and although the manufacture of player-pianos has been practically discontinued, Ampicos are still distributed to Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin for installation in their most pretentious grands. This year American Piano added a complete line of radios to their sales list...
Married. Helen Wills, champion lady tennis player; and Frederick S. Moody Jr., San Francisco broker; at Berkeley, Cal. At the simple ceremony witnessed by only eight people, Miss Wills wore a tailored suit, was unattended...
...territory, should be allowed in all zones. Each pass, to be sure, must stay in one of the three zones in which every rink is divided by blue lines drawn 60 feet apart and forming a quadrilateral whose centre is also the centre of the rink. A player may not pass from one end of the rink to a teammate at the other. But he may now pass the length of each zone in turn. This rule was supplemented by others penalizing players who loaf, for defensive purposes, in front of their own goal...
Every tournament brings up some new player. The one at Hillcrest was a giant Californian, Fred Morrison, who made 15 threes during the 36-hole qualifying round and won the medal with 136, four better than Diegel. Before long he disappeared into the traps that medalists so often discover in a match play. Harry Cooper, who had been given a starting time, was ruled out because he had not played in the elimination tournament in his district. Tommy Armour, one-eyed Scot, was sick at home. Al Espinosa put out Bill Melhorn in a match that went 40 holes, then...