Word: tins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plugged songs on tin-pan pianos- those renegade instruments that stay up late, every night, in the back rooms of cafes, in the smoky corners of third-string night clubs, till their keys are yellow, and their tone is as hard as peroxided hair. Gershwin's fingers found a curious music in them. He made it hump along with a twang and a shuffle, hunch its. shoulders and lick its lips. Diners applauded. "What's the name of that tune, honey?" asked a lady of Gershwin one night...
...ditches half full of water being dug by Chinese coolies wearing tin helmets- the boy wrapped in an army blanket and covered by a weather-worn Union Jack, carried on their shoulders by four slipping stretcher-bearers. A strange scene-the great-great-grandson of Paul Revere under a British flag, and awaiting him a group of some six or eight American Army medical officers -saddened with thoughts of his father...
Came Henry, an inventor, who got the tin-can sound out of his grandfather's perfected dulcimer; Theodore, a mechanic, who standardized construction. Business moved uptown, from a barn to an office building. William, an organizer, headed the house of Steinway. He built Steinway Hall, which, last week, became a subject for the writers of human interest articles...
...little ditty, tenderly called "My June Girl," somewhere between the issue's covers, might well have been written in Tin Pan alley, or inserted in the humorous publication of Pomona college. It rather lacks Lampy's customary standard of dignity and originality and has an unpleasant scent of a very poor and backneyed lyric which has been written and rewritten for 10,009 popular pianos and pianolas...
TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Jim Fisk was a tin peddler from Pownal, Vt. Not he, but Daniel Drew, sold watered stock at the Bull's Head Tavern. Selling watered live stock by weight was an old trick when Mesopotamian cowboys used to trade, in the wine-rooms, at Ur of the Chaldees. It is much if you do not mix up Daniel Drew* with John Drew.† Jim Fisk&** with John Fiske.†† NEWELL MARTIN...