Word: phonographed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans were sick & tired of the word can't. They had heard it over & over: monotonous and nerve-jangling as a broken phonograph record: we can't attack until 1943; we can't get help to China; we can't open a second front; we can't get the raw materials...
...business, and cuts off one of the American public's favorite forms of entertainment, indignant emotions and explosive issues are bound to boil over. And so the order of music's muscle man, J. Caesar Petrillo, that a week ago Friday stopped dead the cutting of all new phonograph records, has been dynamic in its repercussions. These have ranged all the way from a patriotic appeal by Elmer Davis and Peglarian accusations of dictatorial unionism by the New York Times, to a restraint of trade injunction by the Federal Government...
Inventor Crane, now a financial reporter for the New York Times, learned Japanese in Tokyo, where he was financial editor of the Japan Advertiser, newspaper correspondent and broadcaster. He made two best-selling phonograph records-Japanese versions of Drunk Last Night and Hinkey, Dinkey, Parlez Vous...
...with glittering eyes and a gentle smile-five hours a day, four days a week. He is not crazy, just listening. The man is Hungary's eminent composer and music scholar, Bela Bartok (Piano Concertos, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Instruments, MikroKosmos). The cell is a phonograph-listening room at Columbia University. He is listening to some 2,500 double-sided aluminum phonograph discs on which is impressed the largest recorded collection of Yugoslav folk songs ever made...
Corn cribs, set up on street corners in small Kansas towns, bulged with old phonograph records. Men in overalls, streaming through factory gates in Indianapolis, dropped records into barrels. Open-mouthed caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito on Manhattan's Times Square made inviting receptacles to throw discs into. From Maine to California 1,500,000 members of the American Legion and the women's American Legion Auxiliary rang doorbells, telephoned, dashed about in cars and trucks. Out from attics, cellars, closets came dusty black records, bearing such nostalgic labels as Dardanella, Barney Google, Cohen on the Telephone...