Word: phonographic
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...shuddered as the wind pushed him down Boylston Street. "Why worry,--why worry,--why worry" ran through his brain like the stuttering of a cracked phonograph record. The wind whistled "Don't worry," and the sign in the window behind the blood-red crosses was a challenge. For Patriotic Service Beyond the Call of Duty, it screamed. Vag's mind went Red, White and Blue. A minute later the warmth of the converted auto-showroom supported him as he heard the sugar-coated voice in the starched white uniform laugh, "Good afternoon." Come into my parlor, he thought...
...hooligans swarmed over Stamboul Street. A provocateur jumped on a traffic light, brandishing a club. He shouted, and out of the crowd came 30 men similarly armed. In an Armenian toy shop glass splintered. Bricks and clubs flew through the air, smashed other windows. Out of a radio store phonograph records came sailing high into the night. Jewelry stores, rug stores, department stores were quickly bled of all the goods that could be carried. Looters tore down the street in both directions as they got what they wanted...
...half-ship they found floating in mid-Atlantic. They wolfed the canned chicken, hardtack and liquor they found, but their "SS Stern" settled slowly. When its deck was barely awash they had a farewell party They drank their fill and hornpiped to the jangling tones of a portable phonograph. None of them remembered much after that until a passing ship picked them...
Smashed and turned over to the war scrap collection in West Orange, N.J.: a brass and bronze horn built by Inventor Thomas Alva Edison in the mid-'20s to make phonograph recordings. Weight: five tons; length: 125 feet...
...Alley's song publishers crossed their fingers, wondered whether the good old days of the U.S. sheet-music industry might be coming back. White Christmas seemed to be leading a trend. Sheet-music sales, which during the '20s and '30s slumped badly in competition with popular phonograph recordings, are higher than they have been in 15 years (250,000 copies a week...