Word: phonographed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Embassy in Washington has asked Thompson, "When will your family join you?"-and the Thompsons hope it can be soon. Young Craig, 13, will go to school in Moscow, and he and his mother are both studying Russian on phonograph records. But travel to Russia is rugged these days even for a man. (Thompson went in an ATC plane that carried him across the Atlantic and the rim of Africa to Teheran, where the Russians picked him up and flew him over the Caucasus and into the Soviet Union. "The trip," he reported, "was cold, uncomfortable-and wonderful...
What Now? Hundreds of other U.S. employers watched all this uneasily. Most of them had shrugged off Jimmy Petrillo's royalty on phonograph records (TIME, Nov. 20) as a lamentable freak. But if the coal industry began paying royalties into the treasury of the United Mine Workers, labor royalties would be a freak no longer. Other unions would soon be asking for royalties on automobiles, furniture, shoes and a thousand other manufactured products...
...smooth delivery and flawless timing, squires each wrinkled act around as though it were a dewy-eyed debutante. For another thing, Blackouts never stays put. Performers improvise to their hearts' content, while the show itself has been changed 77 times. It has boasted a man who imitates phonograph records, a Chinese comic, a drum-majorette, a gorilla, an elderly lady acrobat; it has auditioned a bow-&-arrow champion, a camel, and a skunk. Of the original cast, only Murray and Marie Wilson have not dropped...
Strapped to an improvised operating table lay Andre di Bernardi, a spiritualist suffering from an inflamed appendix. While a phonograph played Gounod's Ave Maria, mediums "materialized" Dr. Luiz Gomes do Amaral, who died 19 years ago. The patient waited, fully conscious and quivering. He felt clammy hands on his body, a tingling scratch on his abdomen. A soft voice reassured him that he would feel no pain. Water splashed in a pail by his side as if an invisible surgeon were washing invisible hands...
...phonograph droned in the grisly darkness for an hour and 50 minutes. At last the lights went up. In a jar of alcohol weltered a fine appendix. On the patient's belly "was a neatly closed incision. Ten days later, X rays proved that Spiritualist Bernardi's appendix had actually been removed...