Word: instrumental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work for them. In "The Trespasser", now at the Central Square, Gloria Swanson sings, but instead of making it appear that she is playing her own accompaniment the director was perfectly frank about it and had Miss Swanson sit down at a player piano and let this instrument do the work of the double...
Miss Keller, regretting her useless ears more than her useless eyes, informed Thomas Edison (himself deaf): "If I were a great inventor like you, Mr. Edison, I would invent an instrument that would enable every deaf person to hear." "Oh you would, would you?" said he. "Well. I think it would be a waste of time. People say so little that is worth listening...
Last week when Elmer Ambrose Sperry Jr., who with his father, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, developed and perfected the stabilizer, brought the Ford to Long Island with three companions, the stabilizer had guided the ship for nearly 60 trial hours. It seemed such a reliable instrument, so useful in relieving the pilot from constant attention to controls, so much more quick and accurate than a sleepy pilot in moving the controls, that Secretary of War Good permitted the War Department to award it one of its rare encomiums: "The auto-matic pilot has arrived...
...where statesmen dare not, grapple with questions too dynamitey for diplomacy. Chinese Chief Delegate David Z. T. Yui took the Instituters at their word last week. At the first session, before formalities were even disposed of, he leaped up and shrilly accused Japan of using murder as an instrument of national policy. This accusation should have had special interest for John D. Rockefeller III. He had dined a few days before with the son of the murdered Chinaman in question...
...Delacroix. Meanwhile her husband rose unsteadily and she had to put down the instrument to help him into an arm chair. The sleepy switchboard boy seemed to take eons to raise the hotel doctor. Before he arrived the heart of Leon Delacroix had stopped...