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Word: keyboard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from the stars, a host of minor characters make up for some of the film's chronic dreariness. Mrs. Noosbaum, "I'm tellink mine hosband . . ." is rivalled only by John Carradine, in a ghoulish carbon copy of Ephraim Tutt sniggering while hunched over an organ keyboard and by Sidney Toler, who doffs his perennial mustache but is still Charlie Chan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 6/14/1945 | See Source »

...will keep it all moving west of the Mississippi, where the arteries thin out, is tough, able William Franklin Kirk of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., on loan to the Office of Defense Transportation. Bill Kirk is no novice at playing the western railroad keyboard for all it is worth. After some two and a half years of watching over a swelling torrent of war freight, Railroader Kirk is reputed to know every siding west of the Mississippi River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: To the Pacific | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...mood control keyboard" which will influence the frame of mind of everyone in the kitchen. "Has dangerous possibilities: keyboard can run gamut of emotions up to complete hypnosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Wonderful Kitchen | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Bill Gurganus sporting his new Phi Beta Kappa pin while trying to join the heavy-set blonde organist at Shangri-La at the keyboard...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 1/12/1945 | See Source »

...current then flows through a filter which regulates the timbre. This filter is run by a miniature keyboard and works like button-tuning on radio sets; by pressing one button, instead of getting WLW or KNX, the pusher gets cello or clarinet. Next the current flows into the amplifier, controlled by a foot pedal, finally comes out of the loudspeaker. If done properly, it comes out as music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Electric Première | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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