Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Youssoupov boasts that he finally drew a revolver and put shot after shot into Rasputin. Even then the period before Death came was so appallingly long that the Grand Duke Dimitri is said to have rewound a phonograph 20 times in an effort to keep up the morale of all concerned. He later remarked with a shudder...
...light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind the screen are connected with the projection room. Vitaphone captures sounds, not on the film, but on a wax disc similar to a phonograph record. Some theatres have projection machines that can use either Vitaphone or Movietone productions. Mr. Shaw is not the only famed person whose voice and face have been caught by Movietone. Others: Benito Mussolini, Lloyd George, Edward of Wales, Ferdinand Foch, Raquel Meller, Beatrice Lillie, Vatican Choir, Calvin Coolidge, Charles...
...latter commission they were, as had been predicted, unable to fulfill because none of the efforts submitted seemed entirely adequate. The grand prize of $10,000 offered by the Columbia Phonograph Company they could and did award-to one Kurt M. Atterberg, 40, of Sweden, for his Symphony in C Major...
...Vienna, was quoted last week when Katherine Bacon gave a stirring piano recital of his works in Town Hall, Manhattan. Meanwhile, it was announced that some 500 manuscripts had been submitted for the $20,000 prize contest for orchestral compositions in honor of Franz Schubert, sponsored by the Columbia Phonograph Co. National origins of manuscripts were...
Many people are parents. Many parents are stupid. They do not know their children any better than they know the milkman. They are responsible for children being called such insulting names as kiddies, brats, little lambs, little nuisances. They either display their children to visitors like new phonograph records or put them in corners like broken bridge tables. The old practice of cuffing children has given way to almost complete indifference. Parents who can afford a nursemaid seldom see their small children more than once or twice a day. Then, when a child gets older he is sent away...