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Word: victrolas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notes (of the victrola) swelled, the dull aurora on the horizon pulsed and quickened and draped itself into arches and fanning beams which reached across the sky until at my zenith the display attained its crescendo. The music and the night became one; and I told myself that all beauty was akin and sprang from the same substance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

...grateful to Mr. Lamale of Wabash, Ind. for clearing up the Floy Floy business. Imagine trying to sleep in an overnight cabin with a community house 20 ft. in back of you where dancing went on from seven to twelve with music from a victrola and 15 records, one of them Flat Foot Floogie. The words from that distance sounded as if somebody were trying to put Flat Foot Susie on the Sidewalk or Coffee Pot or something!;. Spending most of the night wondering if they'd get her there, imagine my confusion in the morning to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1938 | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...repressions and inhibitions, all of which are quite effective except the last, which drags. The most fun of the whole show, however, is the scene called Economics I, in which the elementary principles are set forth by having the banker shoot in the pants, the manufacturer, who breaks a victrola record over the head of the wholesaler, who somehow arouses the retailer, who squirts fizz water in the face of the consumer...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

...belongs. The authorities, fearing the cost, have refused any petitions on the part of the student body. The truth is, however, that the basement has been laid out perfectly, with one large room, sixty by twenty-six feet, for a library and a number of smaller rooms for victrola playing. The expense of clearing out discarded physics equipment and rehabilitating the rooms with books and scores, already in the hands of the University, would not prove overburdensome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEPRESSING MUSIC | 11/18/1937 | See Source »

...started when the Vagabond was munching cinnamon toast and a sleeve knocked over the cup of Lipton tea into his lap. The edges of his coat and the top of his trousers were soaked, so that the persons standing beside the nickle-a-piece victrola and those gnawing at ice cream cones in their cars outside noticed the absurdity and laughed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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