Word: phonograph
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Scornfully, Eisenhower belabored the Democratic theme song Don't Let Them Take It Away: "A cracked phonograph record endlessly plays the same tune . . . Take away what...
...Auditorium. Then he set off on the final leg of his Western trip, a hasty one-day swing through Arizona and New Mexico. In Phoenix he complained that Republicans would not debate some of "the solemn questions" facing the U.S. "Their whole campaign," he gibed, "reminds me of a phonograph record that monotonously repeats 'I love you, I love you, I love you' -and adds 'honey chile' and a rebel yell when the caravan moves South." In Albuquerque he warned against "the Communist conspiracy within the U.S.," and promised: "Under me as President of the United...
Upstairs, miles of corridors, reception rooms, drawing rooms, anterooms, bedrooms, bathrooms were lined with paintings and stuffed with bric-a-brac. The music room, as big as a cathedral, housed all kinds of instruments, including an antediluvian phonograph and an organ. All the instruments were automatic. In the gymnasium were all sorts of exercise equipment, including an ingenious machine, made in Battle Creek, Mich., which was supposed (but signally failed) to keep the royal rump from becoming imperial. Farouk's study was a pornographer's paradise, hung with garish paintings and crammed with statuettes of nudes in attitudes...
...Phonograph fans with a taste for Russian music have had a wide choice of domestic recordings, but until recently the supply of original Soviet performances was meager. When LP came along, some small companies dubbed from older Soviet records despite the fuzzy sounds that resulted. Quality recordings had to be made from Soviet master disks or tapes, and many of those are controlled by Manhattan's Leeds Music Corp...
...careful artist who doesn't believe in rushing his career, Harrell did not even make up his mind to become a singer until he was 24. He took to music as soon as he was big enough to crank up his mother's phonograph in Celeste, Texas. But he liked the violin music on those old records better than the vocals of Galli-Curci and Caruso. When he was twelve, he coaxed his mother into giving him a year's worth of violin lessons. Twelve penny-pinching years later, he concluded that his fingers were too stubby...