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Word: phonographers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critic Henderson never minced matters. He called Marion Talley "A Chamber of Commerce soprano with a phonograph voice." He wrote of a soprano singing Iphigénie en Aulide that "she seemed a fit subject for the sacrifice." Because the Metropolitan put on too many Fausts in the 18905 he called it "Das Faustspielhaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Silenced Oracles | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...Eskimos who live in the gold & game filled 15.000 square miles of the upper Koyukuk River basin. Since 1910 Bachelor Slisco, 53, has lived in Wiseman. Since 1924 he has owned and operated the roadhouse and store, welcoming the dog-mushers, riverboaters and flyers; playing nightly host at phonograph dances where giggling Eskimo "chickens"' come to flirt with the sourdoughs; cooking the meals he serves all-comers at the unvarying price of $1.50 per meal; baking 15 loaves of 50? bread in his big cookstove thrice a week; swapping supplies for gold at $32 the ounce; introducing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Slisco's Bride | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...colleen?" the Vagabond repeated several times, much like a badly-scratched phonograph record. He had learned that repetition was the polite way of confessing ignorance. With no little sense of awe and appreciation of his luck he was walking with Byron Piccup along the bechildrened pavements in front of Dunster House; a few feet ahead lay their destination in the form of a lighted, whistling popcorn and hotdog stand. Yes, with Byron Piccup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1937 | See Source »

...been studying magnetic waves in the Arctic for three years. They will have an immense assortment of equipment: four tons or so of powdered chicken and similar foodstuffs, brandy, tea, caviar, a windmill to generate electricity for power, light, and cooking, skis, wolf-pelt sleeping bags, guns, sledges, a phonograph with 15 records, radio, chess set, cigarets (cigars for holidays), cameras, books, and a dog to warn of bears. Everything will be divided into five caches so that a sudden crumpling of the ice-floe cannot cause disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Russians to the Pole | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Although the unit has been practicing with canned music, amplified from a phonograph, negotiations are pending for procuring a regular Army band for the occasion. There is a possibility that the services of the 13th Infantry Band may be obtained from Fort Devens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 180 Men Expected To March In First Outdoor Military Review Wednesday | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

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