Word: phonograph
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...stars and bars of the Confederacy. Each evening the house of the Confederacy was crowded with the members of the newly formed Dogwood Hollow Social Club who worked hard at a hard-boiled bad-neighbor policy. With windows wide open they chattered loudly over coffee, volumed up a phonograph, harmonized on Old Black Joe, aiming all this cacophony at the adjoining home of William E. Myers Jr. and his three small children. Reason: the Myerses are Negroes, the first to buy in five-year-old, middle-income Levittown...
...years, cannot be erased, thus eliminating one of the drawbacks of present tape, which can easily be accidentally erased. Orr sees unlimited uses for tape, not only for computers and automatic machines but for all manner of consumer products. Like other tapemakers, he sees tape recordings superseding phonograph records as soon as the cost can be cut. Before long, he expects, people will take home movies with electronic cameras employing magnetic tapes, run them off through their TV sets. Says he: "Our sales will be limited only by our capacity to produce...
Over cocktails (Music, Martinis and Memories) he told her about the account he had lost that morning. Listening to him, she walked quietly to the phonograph and put Music for Courage and Confidence on the turntable. But for long hours after dinner (Music for the Continental Host) he paced the floor while the loudspeaker softly sighed out Music for People Who Can't Sleep...
Catholic Taste. In Spring Creek, Pa., the sheriff was trying to deduce what sort of thieves they were who robbed Andrew Szewczuk of 1) 300 lbs. of frozen beef, 2) 1,000 phonograph records, 3) 40 gallons of paint, 4) a hot-water tank, 5) a grass seeder, 6) a leather jacket, 7) a pair of roller skates, and 8) some false-teeth powder...
...thing I read said she was irrational and sensitive and all the things I sort of am, and how she used to eat pickles in school like me." Kim was instantly attracted. She plastered her dressing room with pictures of the star (whom she actually resembles), rehearsed while a phonograph played mood music of the '203. For sad scenes, an accordionist played Poor Butterfly. But in the picture, Kim proves more kitten than tigress; her tempests rattle not even a teacup. Happily for her admirers, this indifferently fictionalized cinememoir reveals more of Kim than ever before; shedding...