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...Squeak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fire | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...blacks, Oriental priests and court musicians (even by U. S. Indians, hillbillies and Negroes in the South and West) are already extinct. Causes of this high mortality rate: the phonograph and the radio. Primitive races find old-fashioned radio sets somewhat fragile for jungle use. But cheap, hand-cranked squeak-boxes with chipped records of American cowboy songs and Italian operas are found today in mud-walled villages from Timbuktu to Singapore. Impressed by this mechanical magic, natives imitate the scratchy voices, learn to sing Il Trovatore, and end by preferring it, for better or worse, to their own ancient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Melody Hunters | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Dimple Squeak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...EZRA SQUEAK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Noticing the prostrate form, students thought that it had something to do with the Lampoon and would probably squeak or something if they touched it, so they avoided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beer Flows From Old Pump, But Not Enough to Quench Everybody's Thirst | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

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