Word: phonographers
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Hour after hour Joseph lay on his bed, listening to jazz records on his rusty phonograph and sweating his youth away in voluptuous fantasies of the city, where he would "be myself, be free, be cruel and be rich." But whenever he threatened to break out of the web, his mother would bind him tight again with a pernicious tissue of threats. "The day you leave here," she would sob self-pityingly, "I'm going to die!" As for Suzanne, she cleaned up the worms that fell from the diseased roof into the beds, into the food...
...That's a good phonograph, Pete. Sounds much better than the last time I heard...
Selling books has always been considered a quiet, genteel and vaguely intellectual profession. In recent years, though bookstore sales are up, all but the larger shops (which carry everything from phonograph records to cute paper napkins along with reading matter) have been harassed by competition from book clubs, high prices and complaints about inefficiency. Last week brought new evidence on the situation. To promote a forthcoming book-a second-rate soulsearcher on The Way We Live Now-Little, Brown sent out about 3,000 cards inviting opinions from booksellers, reviewers, radio-and newsmen on present-day living conditions. Some...
From then on the Herrmanns and their house had little peace. Among other things, bottles shattered in the bathroom, a sugar bowl flew across the room, a geography globe hurtled through the hall, a portable phonograph dented the woodwork, and a bookcase containing a 25-volume encyclopedia with an overall weight of some 75 Ibs. turned upside down. Detective Joseph Tozzi of the Nassau County police accumulated a briefcase full of notes but no solution. A technical specialist from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Robert E. Zider, went to Seaford with a dowsing rod and a theory that water beneath the Herrmanns...
...that clogs the cordovans and white sneakers. "Named in honor of Christopher Holder," the plaque reads, "a member of the Society of Friends in America in the seventeenth century, devout, loyal to duty, patient in suffering." Gargoyles leer down at the spectacle over the cloister arcade and from a phonograph stuck out the second-floor window of four entry the voice of a rock-and-roll singer blares fortissimo...