Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jehovah's Witnesses are a Bible-dizzy cult whose zealous members push doorbells, hand out pamphlets, play phonograph records, to anyone who will listen, denouncing the Roman Catholic Church. In New Haven, Conn., two years ago, Witness Newton Cantwell and his sons Jesse, 16, and Russell, 18, toured Cassius Street-a lean & hungry district whose population is 90% Catholic. Jesse Cantwell played his record to John Ganley and John Cafferty, Catholics. Squeaked the record, describing a book called Enemies: "This book submits the conclusive proof that for more than 1,500 years a great religious system, operating...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...Columnist Westbrook Pegler, repeating an incessant Washington rumor that accused FBI of collecting secret dossiers on most of official Washington, snarled: "The FBI cooperates with police departments which tap wires of family telephones and even, in one incredible case . . . took phonograph records and moving pictures, on suspicion, of conversations and scenes within the bedroom of husband and wife...
This little story (there is more to it) was cunningly composed not for sense but for sound. Twelve people picked from various parts of the eastern U. S. read the story aloud to a phonograph. Dr. Walter H. Wilke and Joseph F. Snyder of New York University's Department of Speech played the records to ten audiences, also geographically scattered and totaling about 500 listeners, who were asked whether they recognized the accents, and whether they liked them...
...manner, he had always dominated littler men. His nickname-The White Elephant-was one of awe, and had none of the Occidental connotations of that phrase. It referred to his size; his exceptionally fair and aristocratic complexion, accented in its whiteness by his hair, black and shiny as a phonograph record; and his appearance of strength and wisdom...