Word: spinet
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...celebrate his 67th birthday, his office staff had already presented him with two birthday cakes. But the music men had a grander present: a full keyboard spinet, jointly built by the nation's leading piano manufacturers of woods, metals, ivory and wool gathered from nine of the United Nations. The President sat down, obviously pleased, and played the Little Fairy Waltz, a tinkling tune he had learned as a boy back in Independence...
...list prices. "Scare buying" of all consumer goods kept spreading; U.S. department-store sales jumped 21% in a week. In New Bedford, Mass., a telephone operator who caught the fever drew out her savings to buy a sewing machine which she did not know how to operate and a spinet piano which she could not play, as well as a portable radio and an outdoor barbecue...
Summers in Paris. But most of the time, Charles Munch likes to work over scores at his small kidney-shaped desk or at the spinet piano in his study. On mornings when there is a rehearsal, he gets up at 8, eats an unusually hearty breakfast of bacon, scrambled eggs and tea (says Madame Munch: "In Boston we have not yet found good bread"). After rehearsals, if he has no engagement in town, he scoots back to the quiet of Brush Hill Road for luncheon...
...plans to sell: a $1,000 spinet; two Harley-Davidson motorcycles; a $1,500 silver service; a $250 brass fireplace set; a $500 pair of hand-tooled cowboy boots; two pedigreed great Dane puppies ("I do hope we can find them a good home in the country"); a year's supply of dog food...
Doubt about the workability of consigning the saxophonist, clarinetist, spinet piano thumper, and the "just learning" violinist who inhabit his entry to Holden solitude was expressed by Proctor Jerrold Scoutt 3L last night. He had no doubts about the desirability...