Word: accordion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star who turned down several pro offers in order to get on with his career as musician and composer, finally signed up with the Boston Celtics at $15,000 a season when they wrote an unusual clause into his contract: between halves he will be allowed to play his accordion for the customers...
...will take up the story country by country.)A cyclist in France puts the finishing touches on his luggage. Cobblestones have an insidious way of shaking it loose. They also shake loose all the screws, and bolts on the bicycle, and occasionally they fold the frame up like an accordion...
Flair's sample issue has an off-white hard cover, with a second, illustrated cover visible through a triangular peephole. Flair abounds with other tricks. There is an accordion-style pull-out on interior decoration, a pocket-sized book insert, a swatch of cotton fabric, even a page written in invisible ink that can be read when it is heated by a lighted match...
...week's end, after only two speeches (Paris, Ky. and Altoona, Pa.), Barkley took off in a converted B-17 accompanied by his favorite Mayflower Hotel musicians -a guitarist, a violinist, and an accordion player. "You're a little late," said Mrs. Hadley, who had been waiting for an hour at the St. Louis airport. Asked if they would elope, Barkley laughed and said, "There's only one reason for a man and woman to elope. That's if their mammy and pappy object...
...towns of southern France into thin flakes and shavings of color, and though he obeyed the laws of perspective in applying his painted patchwork to canvas, he used different perspectives for each patch. As a result, his pictures looked rather like panoramas painted into the pleats of an accordion. Even his self-portrait appeared to have been painted on creased and crumpled paper: the self-possessed face was only half there...