Word: phonograph
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...Sons Take Over. Gunman López Pérez was a slight, short, pencil-mustachioed Nicaraguan who had worked until lately as a salesman of phonograph records in neighboring El Salvador. He could never reveal his motive: witnesses counted 20 bullet holes in his body. But as an occasional contributor to local newspapers, he had left at least one clue that hinted at an obsession for martyrdom. In a piece of literary criticism written ten days before for the León Cronista, López Pérez said: "Immortality is the aim of life and of glorious...
...collection now includes a phonograph amplifier that works well and loudly in a furnace at 1,500° F., where an ordinary assembly of the same type turns into a puddle of molten glass and metal...
...standard" repertory of late 18th century and 19th century music and even the cool counterpoint of the preclassical masters. Some of the moderns prove to be profitable indeed. The reason: contemporary composers favor brilliant or unusual orchestral effects, and such effects are just dandy for showing off hi-fi phonograph equipment. Thus the battle of modern music appears to have reached its turning point, and the composers who pioneered during the '20s and '30s and their followers are about to enjoy victory...
...romantic pieces that appeal to most young pianists, and he developed a style marked by poise, serenity and the avoidance of bravura for bravura's sake. "Of late we have heard a good many pianists who came to us with enormous reputations sworn to on a stack of phonograph records," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang. "I would not trade this young man for the whole slew of them...
Billie Holiday was a "hip kitty," so she says, practically from the time she was born, 41 years ago, in a Baltimore slum. At six she was running errands for the girls in a local brothel so she could listen to their parlor phonograph. At 13 she had a police record already behind her. In New York she began her singing career. But that did not end her wayward life...