Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hooligans swarmed over Stamboul Street. A provocateur jumped on a traffic light, brandishing a club. He shouted, and out of the crowd came 30 men similarly armed. In an Armenian toy shop glass splintered. Bricks and clubs flew through the air, smashed other windows. Out of a radio store phonograph records came sailing high into the night. Jewelry stores, rug stores, department stores were quickly bled of all the goods that could be carried. Looters tore down the street in both directions as they got what they wanted...
...half-ship they found floating in mid-Atlantic. They wolfed the canned chicken, hardtack and liquor they found, but their "SS Stern" settled slowly. When its deck was barely awash they had a farewell party They drank their fill and hornpiped to the jangling tones of a portable phonograph. None of them remembered much after that until a passing ship picked them...
Smashed and turned over to the war scrap collection in West Orange, N.J.: a brass and bronze horn built by Inventor Thomas Alva Edison in the mid-'20s to make phonograph recordings. Weight: five tons; length: 125 feet...
...Alley's song publishers crossed their fingers, wondered whether the good old days of the U.S. sheet-music industry might be coming back. White Christmas seemed to be leading a trend. Sheet-music sales, which during the '20s and '30s slumped badly in competition with popular phonograph recordings, are higher than they have been in 15 years (250,000 copies a week...
...secret is relaxation. Neither betrays the slightest tension. From start to finish their records are a lesson to the Harry James school of swing and strain. For intimacy and warmth, no one can beat them. Put on a record of Mildred's, sit down, and listen. There is no phonograph, no needle, no turning record, but music that you hear inside, not with your cars...