Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daniel Webster Hoan live in a cheap little frame house in Milwaukee's unfashionable 17th Ward. They have lived there for 18 years. The Hoans's living room overflows with overstuffed furniture, a radio, a phonograph, a piano. On the piano stand photographs of Mrs. Hoan, her mother, the Hoans's son Daniel Webster Jr., their daughter Agnes at 2 and at 18. A picture of the Hoans, looking stiff and uncomfortable after their wedding in 1909, hangs in the stairway hall...
...understanding, the cultural cream gathered in such a course will soon dribble off and be relegated to some mental attic along with other musty educational relics of bygone days. An interesting new innovation is the French and German F, described in the report as an "introduction with slides and phonograph records to the respective countries". At first smacking somewhat of the Travelogue, these two newcomers give promise of being among the most entertaining and colorful of the courses to be given...
...potent medium of musical expression, the phonograph record, is being ignored by many of Harvard's music courses. Especially guilty of this omission is Music 3, and it is suffering immeasurably from its neglect of phonographic interpretation of lecture material...
...music season is a song recital by Soprano Lotte Lehmann, who makes a program glow with her abundance of feeling, her richness of voice. After a memorable Manhattan concert Mme Lehmann began a tour last week which will take her to the Pacific Coast. Coincidentally, an album of phonograph records was issued to represent a complete Lehmann recital with songs by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Hugo Wolf.* Collectors pounced on it because, mechanically, it was outstanding; vocally, Lehmann was at her best, an eloquent interpreter of a dozen different moods...
...king is told to account for the presence of the soldier class by explaining that they are the conquering subjects, he innocently announces that they conquer the subjects. And when this same monarch is called upon to speak to his pugilistic parliament, his crafty prime minister starts a phonograph going beneath the royal robes. This is quite impressive until the minister in his vehemence breaks the record and the needle keeps repeating in the same rut. And when the august assembly convenes to determine Gulliver's fate, a free-for-all is precipitated by the munitions-makers' insisting that Gulliver...