Word: phonograph
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...heirs of Federalist economics, Cadillac was exhibiting their new Directeur. At their show room, the Directeur, "superbly designed for the many requirements of a busy executive," was the star attraction. It included a secretarial compartment, ticker tape news screen, phonograph, and telephones. Inside sat a capitalistic-looking executive and a pretty secretary neatly stowed in her special compartment which faced backward from the front seat...
...homburged magnate in the back occasionally communicated with his home offiffice over his powder-blue telephones, played a record on his phonograph, or explained the car's features and cost: "No price set on it yet. This one cost about $80,000, but when they're in production they'll be available for under 30." The girl playing secretary seemed to be having fun juggling her set of telephones and picking out records for her boss. Her biggest job seemed just to smile, but she also answered questions...
...accounts for most of today's estimated $15 million children's record business. The impulse is felt by all ages. Nobody among the junior low-fi set knows exactly what he will hear when he takes the disks home (buying has actually been cut down by a phonograph playing samples in the store) but the riotously colorful jackets are enough to make sales soar. Packaging and merchandising are fancy and getting fancier-Cellophane windows, stereoscopic pictures with viewer, picture books with sound cues on accompanying records for turning pages. But the tunes that go into the grooves have...
...toothy, decrepit aristocrat, his Conservative colleagues a band of feckless manikins. Vicky's Eden in the last four months has ranged from a knobby-kneed Adam, who is persuaded to bite into the forbidden fruit by a seductive French Eve, to a desert-island castaway brooding over a phonograph full of ancient hits, e.g., The Last Time I Saw Paris, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Last week Vicky derided Tory Leader R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan and Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd as Eton-collared brats whose destructive antics are interrupted by an Ike-faced Santa Claus...
...sheetless bed," Koestler writes The Invisible Writing--"enveloped by gloom and stench, counting the familiar stains on the wall which crushed bed-bugs leave behind, I heard the sound of a gramophone in the next room." It was Hughes, playing Sophie Tucker on his phonograph, not bothering to notice the dirt. While Koestler was disgusted by the filth and unsanitary living habits, and only briefly amused by a local purge trial, Hughes was enjoying lavish Turk hospitality and occasionally reading the voluminous notes Koestler took each day. What Koestler found most everywhere failed to meet his expectations, and Hughes, having...