Word: phonographic
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...power, I would sentence Mr. Edney to two weeks' solitary confinement with nothing but a phonograph machine and the latest albums of Morton Gould and Harry James...
...Union Committee also released last night a resume of expenditures on Union improvement over the summer. These include: 1) $500 for a new phonograph and record library, 2) $1500 for new photographic dark room and equipment, 3) $850 for common room improvements...
...Waltz, autographed by President Truman and Senator Taft, one of Herbert Hoover's collars). If they bring in everything to NBC's Truth or Consequences next week, the Andersons will collect a washing machine, a man's wardrobe, a diamond ring, a vacuum cleaner, a radio-phonograph, two wrist watches, a refrigerator, a gas range, a 72-piece silver service, a home freezer...
...pulled back into wall cabinets when not in use; air hoses to blow off bits of clipped hair; and swinging "rumble seats" attached to the customers' chairs on which the barbers sat while clipping. On request, porters wheeled carts loaded with tonic bottles from chair to chair. A phonograph played hit tunes; portable telephones could be plugged in anywhere. Just inside the plate-glass doors, Oakley proudly flicked the switches of an intercommunication system through which he could converse with the occupant of any chair...
Ruth came out of Nebraska in the early days of the Scott Fitzgerald era, sang briefly in Chicago, made a stack of phonograph records that became standard fraternity-house equipment across the U.S. For the next ten years, she was the nation's leading torch singer, rivaled only by the late Helen Morgan (with whom she once split top billing in the Follies). Coonskin-clad Yale students mobbed her, Broadway toasted her, Hollywood beckoned. She was the top singer in radio when a flap-eared stripling named Crosby was singing in a trio...