Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take their place, and the rising air, saturated with ocean vapor, cools off in the upper atmosphere, the air currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record, with a hollow core, the vortex or "eye" of the storm, through which the sun may shine on the turbulent sea below...
...utterly failed to deflect-French Jazz Pundit Hugues Panassié from listening to innumerable U.S. phonograph records. Paris kept up its hot concerts. When the German authorities, sensing sedition, looked in, they found the St. Louis Blues had become La Tristesse de St. Louis. The said St. Louis, the Germans were told, was of course none other than Louis...
...test. A devout and amoral Junker, he gives his basic loyalty to the German military tradition rather than to the Nazi Party. After his dismissal last week, a Stockholm rumor promptly had him under house arrest. More probably he retired to his country place in Bad Nauheim with his phonograph records (all military marches by brass bands) and his collection of buttons and epaulets of all the world's armies...
...clutter of rummage-sale merchandise. Now: In Chicago a stripteaser is a regular customer of one of the infant Welfare Shops. Weary of material-scrimping war models, she is in the market for glittering sequin evening gowns "that I can slip out of easily." Practically any old phonograph record will sell, and dresses with full-length zippers are snatched out of the hands of delivery men. The Woman's Society of Winnetka's Congregational Church cleared $7,400 in a one-day sale, with more than 5,000 people scrabbling for old lamps, jewelry, and clothes hangers...
...French, Italian, Russian, Urdu, seems to be at home anywhere. Last fortnight, in the thick of the Italian fighting, his U.S. aide, Captain John Grimsby, was startled to hear a guttural German voice barking in the General's room. It was Alexander taking his German lesson from a phonograph...