Word: accordion
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According to Professor Raymond Moley, the New Deal mounted its economic horse and rode off in all directions about the time accordion-pumping Tommy Corcoran usurped the role of FDR enchanter previously played by guitar-plucking Will Woodin of American Car & Foundry. Woodin economy soon was forgotten, Woodin himself died, but left behind in the Treasury was an American Car & Foundry alumnus, Walter Joseph Cummings. Last week Mr. Cummings was conspicuous for a second time in recent years...
...breath-taking surprise was the eight-piece jazz unit known as Matty Malneck's orchestra which captivated the audience with its novel rhythms featuring a Harpo Marxish accordion player called Milton Delugg. Eve Arden as a wealthy patroness of odd theatricals proved to be a front of witty dialogue, Grace-McDonald and Frances Mercer are attractive ingenues, Jack Whiting appears as an adequate song-and-dance man. The dancing of Don Loper and Maxine Barrat provides dynamic climaxes for several of the sequences. "All the Things You Are" is probably the standout among the ever-original and entrancing Kern tunes...
Their first performance in the Guild Theatre was a sellout, for few Manhattanites had ever seen a temple dance outside of tantalizing glimpses in the movies. For them Devi Dja and her accordion-bellied maidens imitated ancient frescoes, did solemn ritualistic wriggles, proved with deft, complicated gestures that Bali's classic dance is not as simple as a sarong. Between these pantomimes and rituals, the wiry, Balinese youths ritualistically jabbed at each other with crooked knives...
...beer-bibbing, brioche-munching joyriders downriver to suburban Suresnes and back. Three francs (about 8?) bought pleasant conveyance for travelers with business at in-between stops, all-day outings for romancing youngsters, tourists bargain-shopping for local color. Tremulous were the moonlit nights with the sighing of accordion bands from riverside bals musettes, whispery the riverside dingles with the billing & cooing of pic-necking couples. As Bear Mountain boats to Manhattan outers were the Seine fly boats to Parisians...
...feet five. (His small head, thick neck and beakish nose make him look something like an upright turtle.) But even when he is through with newspapering, Smitty will be all right. He claims he has $50,000 put away. His wife disapproves of him, except when he plays the accordion...