Word: spinet
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...then Abeba's "New York Mamma" comes to get her. Backwater Carolina fades into Brooklyn blur, the shabby streets a "tangle of evening voices" and of men who act tough, talk fast, sing scat. Here Abeba, nicknamed the "Piano Girl" for the black and shiny spinet that her ambitious mother buys her, grows up to the accompaniment of Mozart and Mendelssohn. "We looking for you to make it big," her street-corner admirers tell...
...from Sears in 1941 for a mere $180,000 and merged with Aeolian American Piano Co., long a leader in the quality field. Today prices range from a high of $7,250 for an ebony Mason & Hamlin concert grand to a low of about $400 for a 64-key spinet upright. After years of lagging popularity for the old player piano, the company in 1956 revived the Pianola, last year's most popular item, with 3,500 sold...
Other purchases included, according to the prosecution, oil portraits of Stratton and his wife (supposedly for Stratton's 1956 campaign), a spinet organ, a manure spreader for Stratton's farm, a European trip for one of his daughters, a magazine subscription (Realties) for Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen. The defense replied that such items were either gifts or related to Stratton's political career. Said Defense Counsel William Barnett: "It is hard to say that even his toothpaste was not a deductible expense...
...Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan) are quite sufficiently insane, but one could research the annals of television and not discover the likes of her butler Lurch, who is played by Ted Cassidy, 6 ft. 9 in., 250 Ibs., with a massive, embalmed face and a deft touch on the parlor spinet...
...CinemaScope movie projectors in his 45-seat theater. Others are ready to tend the bar, embellished with a union label and well stocked both in spirits and in soft drinks for Teetotaler Beck. Also on the underground level is a ballroom, complete with blond electric organ, a spinet piano, and a carefully illuminated portrait of the Teamsters' President Dave Beck...