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Word: phonographers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catherine's Hospital in Brooklyn has installed a phonograph in its operating room. It is painted white, like an icebox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Music | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

...which Mayhew has made almost over night a large fortune, have been one of the most extraordinary of recent successes. A few years ago, while connected with the Advertising Department of Harper & Bros, publishers, this ingenious fellow hit upon the idea of combining a printed page with a phonograph record. From this the Bubble Books were evolved. You read aloud to the children a story from one of the volumes. At a certain point the text relates that the baby bear sang a song. There follows on the page a slot containing a phonograph record, which you play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bubble Piano | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

...Arthur Bliss of New York City will give an address on The Contemporary English Compeers this evening at $15 o' clock in the John Knowles Paine Concerts Hall in the Music Building. Mr. Bliss' lecture, which is open to the public will be illustrated by phonograph records and planoforts delections. The meeting will be held under the samplers of the Department of Music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bliss to Talk on English Composers | 11/13/1923 | See Source »

...situations are all persevering primitives. The plot is a frankly threadbare clothesline on which to pin the songs and dances. The voices are powerful but rather inclined to bolt and run away among the gallery rafters. But even rags for costumes, a popular song for a plot, and a phonograph for music would be overlooked in view of the dancing and the vast enthusiasm of the players. Never before has so much energy been concentrated on a single stage. A congress of oriental dervishes would seem static in comparison. In addition, the stars, Miller and Lyles, are boisterously competent comedians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 12, 1923 | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

...cobbler. He learned to sole a shoe only passably, and regarded the putting on of O'Sullivan and Cat's Paw heels a sad bore. He had a great passion for Caruso records, and at times when he should have been hammering and stitching he cranked a phonograph and listened, rapt. At his work he always sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Orleans Shoemaker | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

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