Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. They live in evil-smelling thatched shacks perched on stilts, fish in the Everglades' black sluggish waters, hunt deer and wild turkey, make a little cash as vegetable pickers, hunting guides, sideshow attractions in amusement parks. Their chief recreation consists of listening to phonograph records, drinking a mixture of moonshine and Sloan's liniment. A Seminole marriage is complete when the bride's family has provided a shirt for the groom; the groom's family, a bed; and the groom has moved into the bride's house. To divorce...
...article on Lowell House yesterday omitted one of its most valued features, the record library. This library contains over nine hundred phonograph records. All of the symphonies of Beethoven and Brahms, the last three of Mozart, a number of the works of Sibelius and Stravinsky, several complete grand operas, and all except one of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas--these are a few of the many records in the library, which is unapproached by that of any other House. More records are being bought each year through the generosity of the House Committee, and the choice of the new selections...
Final fusillade in last week's radio lampooning came from Father Coughlin who took 45 min. on the air to call General Johnson a "flush Bourbon," a "cracked phonograph record," a "political corpse," a "prince of bombast." "The money changers whom the priest of priests drove from the temple of Jerusalem," cried he, "have marshaled their forces behind the leadership of a chocolate soldier forthe purpose of driving the priest out of public affairs. . . . You compare me to Judas Iscariot as a piker, the same Judas who betrayed his Lord and Master. Oh, it is not my province...
...practice of printing a single positive film from separately developed negatives had long been known, was free to anyone to apply to sound-recording systems. The flywheel was the property of mankind. As long ago as 1879 Thomas Edison found he could not patent the flywheel on his phonograph...
...surpassed. In a walk-up studio in Bronxville (N. Y.), great Olive Fremstad lives grimly surrounded by her operatic trophies. The still lovely Emma Eames divides her time between Paris and Manhattan, occasionally revisits her old home in Bath, Me. Alma Gluck stopped opera-singing in 1912. Concerts and phonograph record royalties made her rich. And she is content to be a New York hostess and devoted wife to Violinist Efrem Zimbalist...