Word: phonographed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special feature of the new phonograph is the pickup mechanism of the two prongs, so light that it exerts less pressure (1 oz.) than the weight of the record. Like the Capehart, RCA Victor's new phonograph is expensive ($450). But with both on the market, competition may do a little price regulating...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...sweeties back home. They went to the well-stocked ordnance depot to get what they needed-anything from a new engine for a tank to a new stopper for a canteen. In a half-wrecked house on a square which someone had renamed Piazza Brown others listened to a phonograph grotesquely grinding out their favorite, Waltzing Matilda. A camouflage unit, fresh out of paint, improvised with captured Italian coffee (undrinkable), tomato sauce (condemned) and flour paste (plentiful...
...ably supported by hundreds of sharp details of war, family living, nature, and what female readers like to designate as typically "Russian" scenes: a madly loyal Cossack hanging on to a disabled cannon "like a dangerous pig tied to a log"; Red troops who, with a blaring phonograph on a sledge, gallop round & round the streets of a village; some gruesome close-ups (on both sides) of rape, looting, calm and frantic murder; a soldier trying on some fancy drawers he stole for his wife, catching his big toe in the lace; peasants shyly examining a bullet-pocked plane...
...garage mechanic, alone in Dick's classy convertible, he is picked up by Janie, who recognizes the car and thinks Harry is Dick, whom she has not met but hopes to. She impulsively climbs in beside him. That night they go dancing -in a booth in a phonograph record shop. But Janie cannot resist the bushy-haired mechanic's impregnably impertinent charm. He: "I think maybe I'm in love with you." She: "You are?" He: "I think so." A pause and an arch look from Janie: "Well, when'll you know?" They know immediately because...