Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tones like rusty razor-blades to tunes like smitten tin...
...after the intermission Tin Pan Alley took over the show. The curtain went up, disclosed six grand pianos in a semicircle and a seventh in the centre. Two men were at each of the six pianos, ready to play 24 hands on. President Gene Buck of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers had become master of ceremonies...
Most of the more sacred memories are engendered by reminiscences of a tin trunk that, on rainy days. Author Van Vechten's mother reached off a shelf for him to rummage in. Thinking now of that tin trunk, with its daguerrotypes and snippets of family hair, he remembers placidly that his maternal grandmother, who smoked a pipe, prophesied that he would die on the gallows. She had her reasons. Once, to compel his mother's attention, he snatched a kitchen knife from her by the blade so violently that he still bears the scar. "A similar perversity drove...
...TIME, Jan. 18); of pneumonia; in Kane, Pa. Died. Samuel M. Curwen, 73, president of J. G. Brill Co. (trolley cars), director of many a potent U. S. corporation; of a general breakdown; in Haverford, Pa. Died. William Thompson Graham, 81, a founder (with the late Daniel G. Reid. "Tin Plate King'') and onetime president of American Can Co.; of pneumonia after long illness; in Manhattan...
Apparently Tin Pan Alley's dictatorship over the world's popular tunes has ended for last week Manhattan's smart Gramophone Shop reported that this season had been by far its biggest for popular records made abroad. London has sent several outstanding numbers: "The Pied Piper" arranged with a catchy, recurring ^'piper" motif; a good dance record of "You're Blase" and a two-piano version neatly embroidered by Peggy Cochrane and William Walker. From Paris there is Lucienne Boyer's "Parlez-Moi d'Amour" which took a prize last year for being the best popular record made in France...