| 单词 | gramophone |
| 例句 | Metal boxes cover the tabletop: tubes, coils, switches, meters, at least one gramophone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The small boy discovered an old gramophone and dragged it across the floor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “The recordings of my brother. The gramophone company in Paris wasn’t interested anymore, but every night I played the ten recordings we’d made, until most of them were worn out. And his song.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Friday night a week later we crammed into an old truck with ten other people and an assortment of secondhand goods—cupboards, wardrobes, gramophones, pots, pans, tables, mirrors, cement bags, bricks, chairs and glass windows. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The distant gramophone stuck now, suddenly, on a grinding, wailing, sardonic trumpet-note; this blind, ugly crying swelled the moment and filled the room. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Robert's sextet is now impossible to buy. You encounter his music only by serendipity in vicarages in July afternoons. This is your one chance in your life. You can work this gramophone?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Miss Spink went off the stage, and the noise of trumpets squealed as the gramophone needle dug its way across the record, and was pulled off. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z There’s a gramophone in Mrs. O’Connor’s playing an Irish jig or a reel and boys and girls are dancing around kicking their legs out and keeping their hands to their sides. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Card playing, guessing games, impersonations, listening to gramophone records, slide lectures, reading aloud—the men found ways of entertaining themselves and keeping their thoughts occupied in the long, dark winter months. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A hand somewhere struck the gramophone arm and sent the silver needle on its way through the whirling, black grooves, like something bobbing, anchorless, in the middle of the sea. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Later we got a gramophone and then I could dance, too. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z On the table was a gramophone—an old-fashioned type with a large trumpet attached. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z He would put on his best clothes, shave, and play his favorite opera arias on the gramophone. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He led a ghostlike existence between the tiny, dark shop and an even tinier back kitchen where he prepared his meals and which contained, among other things, an unbelievably ancient gramophone with an enormous horn. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Sort of thing you do when you’re ten, about the age I took Gran’s gramophone to bits. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I handed them their drinks dully, saying little; I changed the records on the gramophone, I threw away the stubs of cigarettes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Often, it seemed, the pressure coincided with their “gramophone evenings,” and some of the more superstitious members of the crew began to think the music caused the pressure. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Lamar came in and at Mother’s request put some Schubert songs on the gramophone. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Somebody was playing loud music from a gramophone; soon, a cluster of men by the compound gate began to laugh and jostle one another, mimicking the song. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z So even up at Oxford, other than playing her gramophone a little louder than she was permitted at home, she continued to lead the same small, tight life that she imagined she had escaped. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s called a gramophone. Gramo. Phone. It plays records. You know, music. A gramophone.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Twice, Harry had gone to his office and knocked, but received no reply, though on the second occasion he was sure he had heard the quickly stifled sounds of an old gramophone. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But music was not for sale before the first big gramophone companies came into being, it was just natural. Frank Fairfield: Sorting the funky from the fogeys 2010-07-22T22:21:00Z Self-taught and working before and after the first world war, Smith mastered early microscopic, time-lapse and underwater photography with contraptions he fashioned from Meccano, candlewicks and gramophone needles. Small wonders: the tiny world of F Percy Smith 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The boy makes a suitcase out of a gramophone case, and fills it with Faust, a volume of poetry, aftershave, socks, a burgundy silk scarf … Every item is scrupulously detailed. The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller – review 2012-11-21T08:00:07Z The Fire Sermon in particular is full of noise: gramophones and mandolins, throbbing engines and pealing bells, "a clatter and a chatter". I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z The new series also boasts a stylish, reinvented Tardis, featuring a central console made up of bric-a-brac from through the ages, including a gramophone speaker, 1980s phone and a typewriter. Doctor Cool 2010-04-01T22:26:00Z Except for among gramophone collectors, the technology to listen to a cylinder is a thing of the past. Forget Vinyl: New Recording Is Most Retro Ever 2013-09-09T16:49:45Z Professor Lupin’s intense traditionalism is reflected in his old-fashioned gramophone records in plain paper jackets; Ron’s clothing is clearly inherited from his brothers. Standing Close to the Harry Potter Movie Wizardry 2011-04-04T13:28:35Z Visitors sit on chairs within an elliptical field of speakers, facing a gramophone. ‘The Murder of Crows’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-08-09T15:11:07Z There is no view from the interior bar — 24 gorgeous feet of live-edge Pacific Madrone illuminated by pendant lamps made of antique gramophone horns — but no empty seats there either. Water view, mouthwatering menu on Eastlake 2011-07-14T19:28:04Z The film conveys a fondness for analog-age artifacts like gramophones and handwritten diaries, but Barker-Froyland mistakes such affection for evidence of character. The neo-folk-tinged 'Song One' is tiresome in its preciousness 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z So intense was the Philadelphians’ sound in the flesh that they made other ensembles “sound like reproductions, like gramophone recordings of themselves,” Thomson once wrote. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z In an irresistible scene, Jimmy christens the reopened venue by cranking up his gramophone and teaching his friends a dance he learned in Harlem. 'Jimmy's Hall' is a subdued story of Irish activist Jimmy Gralton 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The only accessory these guys need now is a tiny golden gramophone. Perspective | The Grammys are trying to change. So why does it feel like they’re moving backward? 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Singers like were performing it in music halls around the world and recorded versions became increasingly available as the gramophone gained popularity. Danny Boy at 100 2013-11-10T21:39:11Z It’s safe to say that Beyoncé and her twins will steal the show regardless of how many gilded gramophones she receives. Let’s Imagine a Better Grammys 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Over here is a fantastical transmitter built of a typewriter keyboard, a clock and a gramophone horn. Derring-do in a steampunk world: This Cirque du Soleil show is so 'Kurios' 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Before V-E night is through, Freya will lead Nancy to her father’s flat, ply her with whisky and Benzedrine and put “I Only Have Eyes for You” on the gramophone. ‘I Am the Kind of Woman I Would Run From’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The math of finding the balance between, as one of our producers rightly said early on, "We want to make sure people don't sound like they're coming out of a gramophone." From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z But — to borrow from the name of her acclaimed sophomore album — the road to winning a golden gramophone was not "The High Road." JoJo's old label used to own her voice, but now she's reclaimed it with new album "Good to Know" 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Having a Region 2 DVD player will soon be like owning a windup gramophone. Peter Bradshaw on his out-of-control DVD collection 2012-06-10T19:00:01Z SAT Test drive new technology including inventor kits, 3-D printing, robots, with showcase of old technology including typewriter and gramophone, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z But now that those gold gramophone trophies have finally arrived, he knows exactly what he’s going to do with them. One hit no more: Persistence pays off for Billy Ray Cyrus 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Her voice was with her from the beginning; and for her 10th birthday her mother gave her a gramophone and a recording of Eugene Onegin. Galina Vishnevskaya obituary 2012-12-11T18:32:40Z Back in my student days – when I should have been listening to Radiohead or studying – Can Soundtracks was a favourite on the electric gramophone. Can: the ultimate film soundtrack band? 2011-03-11T12:39:00Z Phil’s golden gramophone sits casually on a dining-room sideboard; prime decorative real estate, but afforded no more ceremony than a favorite plant. Backing Brandi: How the Hanseroth twins and Brandi Carlile became a Grammy-storming ‘misfit’ family 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Coffee beans rattle in a gramophone horn, and the legs of the dancers at Isis’s party stretch like Silly Putty. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Krall encored with covers of The Band’s “Ophelia” and Bob Dylan’s “Wallflower,” before putting an old 78 on the gramophone to serenade her happy audience as they headed out of the hall. Diana Krall takes fresh twist on forgotten tunes | Concert review 2014-04-17T19:10:57Z JT actually doubles his Album of the Year nominations, as he is up for the gramophone for two records this year. 8 People You Might Not Realize Are Nominated For Album Of The Year 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Had our laws been crafted to preserve the "culture business as we know it", the photograph, the gramophone, the photocopier, the tape recorder and, yes, the internet may have never arrived. Free Ride by Robert Levine ? review 2011-08-18T11:24:01Z The collection also includes that early helicopter, the brainchild of German-born Washingtonian Emile Berliner, better known as the inventor of the gramophone. Perspective | College Park is up in the air 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Instead, the singers tango, as they might in real life, to a gramophone recording of Weill’s music. A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z After the pieces are cast, they go through a series of filing, sanding and polishing processes, and the gramophone cabinet and tone arm are plated in 24-karat gold. 350 Grammys. Four Craftsmen. Here’s How the Awards Are Made. 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z A gramophone stood atop a table beside bolts of shimmering cloth. Can’t Repeat the Past? An Immersive ‘Great Gatsby’ Thinks You Can. 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Gather round the gramophone, everyone, Nan's about to drop Jessie J! Rewind radio: Radioplayer; Ken Bruce; Jeremy Vine ? review 2011-04-02T23:12:09Z “We wanted something roomy enough to accommodate two adults, a typewriter, wireless, gramophone and records, sewing machine, a mass of books, a cat and an extremely lively eighteen-month-old baby,” Aiken wrote. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z I’d go there every weekend from the age of seven or eight and buy all sorts of weird things: gramophones, gas mantles, electric toasters, Bakelite hairdryers. Modern life is rubbish! The people whose homes are portals to the past 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z There's an early pair of spectacles and some tortoise-shell ear trumpets, like a pair of gramophone earmuffs. Superhuman: are we the greatest design project of the century? 2012-07-17T12:38:33Z Anna walks free when an unidentified mystery woman confesses to the crime, and loyal viewers, after all this time, may be inspired to follow the Downton example and break out the gramophone and Veuve Clicquot. ‘Downton Abbey’ Final Season, Episode 1 Recap: Off They Go 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Before you answer, remember that those coveted golden gramophones are industry-voted awards — which means that the industry is ultimately voting for its own relevance. Perspective | Jay-Z leads this year’s Grammy nominations. Hip-hop hooray? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The goal was simple: to keep the gramophone and its Art Deco influences but rework the tone arm, which was prone to breaking because of its thinness. 350 Grammys. Four Craftsmen. Here’s How the Awards Are Made. 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z In “Highcastle,” Lem tries to preserve on paper all the things he loved that were destroyed by the 1941 Nazi invasion: the candy shops, his father’s surgical devices and the family gramophone. Review | Stanislaw Lem has finally gotten the translations his genius deserves 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z If there’s any justice, however, grizzled Indiana vet Freddie Gibbs gets his first golden gramophone after steadily climbing from rap-nerd favorite to one of the genre’s most critically acclaimed artists over the past decade. Who will win — and who should win — at the 2021 Grammy Awards? Our music critic makes predictions 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z “Homes bled out their insides — bureaus, bathtubs, drawers, gramophones — before folding into themselves,” he writes. Books of The Times: ‘Southern Cross the Dog,’ a Novel by Bill Cheng 2013-05-21T21:36:57Z And though he performed and won his 11th gramophone at the show, he productively used the week where most of the music industry flocks to Los Angeles to add new flavor to his album. The special secret sauce in John Legend’s album: the Grammys 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Upon visiting Greeley, Colo., in 1949, Mr. Qutb wrote angrily about a church dance where the minister dimmed the lights and went to the gramophone to put on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” How ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ Went From Parlor Act to Problematic 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z They enjoyed a memorable picnic at St Cloud at which Picasso invented dance steps and wild gestures that he thought would be appropriate to some dramatic Chinese music on a gramophone . Pablo Picasso and his influence on British art 2012-02-10T22:55:13Z The hut contains a photographer’s dark room, a laboratory, a bread-making oven and a gramophone, all of which provided the expedition members with an unusual level of domesticity. In Transit Blog: Marking an Epic Polar Journey in London 2012-01-20T14:44:01Z But the awards felt like an afterthought — punctuation marks between performances meant to chase higher ratings than the act of doling out golden gramophones is capable of generating. Grammy Awards 2015 Recap 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Brian invited me to lunch at Broadcasting House, followed by a tour of the gramophone library. Brian Rust obituary 2011-03-31T17:21:39Z Objects fade into prior “versions” of themselves: an audio system reverts to a gramophone and a TV becomes an AM radio. The Essential Philip K. Dick 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The gramophone trophy might as well have been a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. It’s Too Late for the Grammys to Redeem Themselves 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z “I need to buy this,” Mr. Arenella says, laying down $375 in cash for the gramophone, making it the third in his collection. Living in the Past Is a Full-Time Gig 2012-06-14T15:14:08Z Contemplating Nana’s disappearance, Chuck suddenly realized why the device was called a gramophone. Style Invitational Week 1260: What lies (are) ahead for 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The score boasts a diverse palette, incorporating gramophone music from the '20s, Scottish folk and island sounds invoking both Rodgers & Hammerstein's "South Pacific" and Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z She had her dad’s gramophone on her left, a player piano on her right and five terrific musicians seated in between. Diana Krall takes fresh twist on forgotten tunes | Concert review 2014-04-17T19:10:57Z The final singer to be castrated died in 1922, and was the only castrati to have made gramophone recordings. Hey, what's that sound: Falsetto 2011-02-01T16:00:00Z You could always hear ballet music in our house being played on scratchy records on an old gramophone. Top 10 tips for being a choreographer 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Billed as "Britain's youngest singing star," she performed widely on the postwar concert and variety circuit with forays into radio, gramophone recording and even early television. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z I also have an old gramophone that I like to play every now and then. James Wan Prefers Peter Jackson’s Gory Horror Comedies 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Here In My Heart was released in Britain only on a 78, and the best way to unravel its mysterious appeal is to listen to it on a gramophone rather than an MP3 player. The best No 1 singles: Al Martino – Here In My Heart 2012-05-31T21:00:00Z I listened to them on a gramophone borrowed from my father. Tango: Argentina's gift to the world 2010-10-05T12:59:00Z As you walk over creaking floorboards, soft jazz emanates from the horn of a gramophone. Shanghai Dwellings Vanish, and With Them, a Way of Life 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z If Lamar was suggesting that he didn’t need that little golden gramophone in his hand to validate his greatness, he was absolutely right. Grammys: Taylor Swift wins the big one, but Kendrick Lamar steals the show 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Mondrian was a fan of American jazz and would play it on the gramophone for visitors to his studio, said Küster. Want to Understand Mondrian’s Paintings? Try Dancing to Them. 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The library owns Edison cylinder machines, as well as an early Berliner gramophone — a competing technology that used flat discs. Romancing the Horn: Opera Stars Record Like It’s 1900 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Unknown to many people, the Grammys give out many different types of awards other than just the traditional golden gramophone we see celebrities accepting on TV. These Are The 27 Titles Being Inducted Into The Grammy Hall Of Fame 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z This was a time in which radically new electromagnetic tools—gramophone, telephone, radio, radar, cinema, television—shattered our centuries-old expectations about how information and image are located and transported across space. How Amazon’s Bookstore Soothes Our Anxieties About Technology 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The show was impeccably cast with singers whose affinities to gramophone and operetta styles of the era helped bridge the gap between then and now. Music Review: ‘Sweepin’ the Clouds Away’ Lifts Spirits at 92nd Street Y 2014-02-23T21:45:05Z For the Beatles’ “When I’m 64” she affected a modified gramophone voice and humorously commented on how the words resonate with baby boomers. Music Review: Maureen McGovern at Birdland - Review 2011-11-09T23:26:51Z But Smith also managed to snap up the other three most coveted gramophone statuettes of the night. 2015 Grammys: One dark night of the soul 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Guests can peruse antique gramophones, learn early-20th-century dance moves and sit for vintage portraits. Spare Times for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z But did you also know he stashed a mandolin, a piano, books and a gramophone onboard his ship? Three New Books Will Take You to Places You’ve Never Gone Before 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The divisions between “high culture” and “low culture” are as archaic as the gramophone and 5-cent silent movies. Why Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to the book world 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z My grandfather, who spent lavishly on books and music, owned a fine gramophone and a large collection of recordings. Love and Loss, Set to Music, During the Holocaust 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Today, on Sunday, Gabriel will set his gramophone on the table in front of him. People on Sunday 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Now, Clark and Carlile will have another chance to take home golden gramophones together for their latest duet, “Dear Insecurity,” nominated for best Americana performance and best American roots song. How Brandy Clark and Brandi Carlile’s Grammy-nominated duet was born 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z At the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989, Chapman took home three golden gramophones, including one for pop vocal performance, female, for “Fast Car.” 'Fast Car' songwriter Tracy Chapman felt she could be someone. At CMA Awards, she was a historic winner 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The golden gramophone has been on her mental vision board since the beginning — so much so that she already has an image of herself in the winners circle, with not just one trophy in hand. Coco Jones went from Disney Channel to Def Jam, and found her voice on the way 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z Sinatra only took home one gramophone trophy after getting a leading six nominations, for art direction, not singing. AP Was There: The first Grammy awards 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Now, in addition to her professional career, she has four children, nine grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and a golden gramophone. Watch 95-year-old Angela Álvarez accept her Latin Grammy for new artist 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The presenter, Walford Davies, was already waxing lyrical, but there was no gramophone in his studio. How the BBC helped to educate the nation in its first 100 years 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Prof Erik Brynjolfsson, of Stanford University, tweeted that to claim systems like Lamda were sentient "is the modern equivalent of the dog who heard a voice from a gramophone and thought his master was inside". Google engineer says Lamda AI system may have its own feelings 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr and Mrs Fletcher fell in love with the era through watching black and white films, with their favourite possession being their gramophone. 'We live like it's the 1930s' 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z "It was absolutely incredible - other than playing a gramophone record you couldn't hear music or speech from elsewhere." Marconi's first radio broadcast made 125 years ago 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Nine years later she won her first gramophone for "Here You Come Again," her 19th solo album and first to go platinum. Dolly Parton breaks 3 Guinness World Records: ‘You're going to have to knock me down to stop me!’ 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z "They got him a butler and cook to serve him food, a wind-up gramophone and there was even a flock of goats to provide him with goat's milk, which Einstein preferred to cow's milk." Albert Einstein's hideaway in hut documented in new book 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Speaking about the day he first heard music, Gay said: "My mother wound up the gramophone, I hadn't heard four bars of the music before and there were tears in my eyes." Londonderry jazz musician Gay McIntyre has died aged 88 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z All four of these Grammy winners deserved an extra gramophone for their sartorial efforts — bravo! Sunday Best: Matching masks make for high fashion at 63rd annual Grammy Awards 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Kraftwerk would pose with gramophones as well as synthesisers; a deep vein of classical music tradition underpinned their futurism. Kraftwerk: their 30 greatest songs, ranked! 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, someone played Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” on an old gramophone. On Christmas Eve in 1944, the snow turned red with blood 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The suspense and unease builds, which is only further compounded by the music that suddenly starts playing from the strangely out of place gramophone. No Players Online is like playing original Quake alone on a haunted server 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Sears dates back to the late 1880s and its mail-order catalogues with merchandise from toys, medicine and gramophones to automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon of its time. Exclusive: Lampert helps bankroll Sears as woes persist after bankruptcy - sources 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The "7 Rings" singer showed off her Grammy win for Best Pop Vocal Album, which she first received back in February, telling fans she received the iconic gramophone trophy in the mail on Tuesday. Ariana Grande shows off Grammy win on Instagram, presents it to her pet pig 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z In New York, they were showered with gifts - including a case of prohibited rum and a gramophone by Thomas Edison - and were greeted by President Woodrow Wilson. 'Our village was 1919's Cape Canaveral' 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z The words of their native tongues were relayed to a hi-fidelity gramophone recorder, and a stylus etched the sound waves into the surface of circular black disc records. The original records of Nazi atrocities are at risk of being lost 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z "I always say he was inoculated with a gramophone needle," laughs Malcolm. The ultimate fan with a microphone 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z “We both like what we call ‘magpie culture’ and are more likely to be inspired by a 1920s wood-and-brass gramophone or a Victorian bell jar than anything ‘generational’.” Mother-daughter duos: the new power couples of fashion 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Merchandise from toys, medicine, gramophones, automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon.com Inc of its time. Sears makes case to judge for rescue deal with chairman Lampert 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z It was known as the “first everything store”, selling everything from toys to medicine, gramophones, automobiles, kit houses and headstones. Sears liquidation looms after $4.4bn takeover deal fails 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z There, the original voices were recorded onto black disc gramophone records with a cellulose trinitrate lacquer surface and aluminum core made by the Presto Recording Corporation. The original records of Nazi atrocities are at risk of being lost 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z But the history of the brand that became known as HMV reaches back to the introduction of the gramophone in the 1890s. HMV: The rise and fall of a music icon 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z What is a “Grammy”? Short for gramophone, the award is named for an old 78 rpm record player and is shaped like a miniature version in gold plating. Grammy facts and figures, including who has the most career wins 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Its mail-order catalogues with merchandise from toys, medicine and gramophones to automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon.com Inc of its time. Bankruptcy judge approves financing to keep Sears open 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Sears dates back to the late 1880s and its mail-order catalogues with merchandise from toys, medicine and gramophones to automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon.com Inc of its time. Sears, once a retail titan, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Luckily, the aluminum core of the gramophone record “acts as a heat sink if the record catches fire,” one archiving expert says. The original records of Nazi atrocities are at risk of being lost 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Sears dates back to the late 1880s and its mail-order catalogues with merchandise from toys, medicine and gramophones to automobiles, kit houses and tombstones made it the Amazon.com Inc of its time. Iconic U.S. retailer Sears files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Baylis later said he went into a reverie imagining himself as a colonial settler, nursing a gin and tonic and listening to a wind-up gramophone. Obituary: Trevor Baylis 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z "You know, everybody had a gramophone," he recalled. Hugh Masekela: South Africa's 'Father of Jazz' 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z He relishes educating customers, explaining the nuances of a record player, a record changer, a phonograph and a gramophone. Vinyl lives on at New Jersey record shop 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z The tone arm attached to the gramophone bell broke easily. This is where the Grammys are born — in a remote mountain workshop in Colorado 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Take the first invention grouped under the first theme: the gramophone as an example of the phenomenon that “new technologies almost always create winners and losers.” Review: ‘Fifty Inventions’ Falls Short of Its Ambitions 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z He still remembers how someone was playing a gramophone that sat on a floor. Pennsylvania cantor, once on Schindler’s List, sings on 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Rauschenberg had mounted white paintings on the ceiling, and he played what one audience member recalled as “old hokey records” on an antique gramophone. The Audacity of Robert Rauschenberg 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Satellite television has been to footballers what the gramophone was to musicians, or the telegraph to 19th Century industrialists. Superstar economics: How the gramophone changed everything - BBC News 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Dusty statues of ballerinas, old clocks and vintage gramophones sat on the shelves. This is where the Grammys are born — in a remote mountain workshop in Colorado 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z He particularly argues that satellite television “has been to athletes what the gramophone was to musicians.” Review: ‘Fifty Inventions’ Falls Short of Its Ambitions 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Even Adele, who later broke her trophy in half and gave part of its golden gramophone to Beyoncé, registered that “Lemonade” was the more deserving album: “I can't possibly accept this award,” she said onstage. Beyoncé's Grammy snub and the glass ceiling on black art 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Keys was the promising new arrival 16 years ago, making her first Grammy Awards appearance and taking home five gramophone statuettes, including best new artist, in one of the most dramatic debuts in Grammy history. Maren Morris, James Corden and dozens more test their voices at rehearsals for the 2017 Grammy Awards 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Throughout the 20th Century, new innovations - the cassette, the CD, the DVD - maintained the economic model created by the gramophone. Superstar economics: How the gramophone changed everything - BBC News 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Yusupov's co-conspirators made lots of noise on the floor above, faking a party, and played the American song Yankee Doodle on the gramophone. How was Russian mystic Rasputin murdered? - BBC News 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Soon after, competing companies released their own versions of the phonograph, including the Victor Talking Machine Company’s gramophone and Columbia’s graphophone. The sound of nostalgia 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z At one time, Fearing owned more than 150 old phonographs or gramophones and about 10,000 records from the early 20th century. Elizabeth City phonograph collector recalls musical era 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z His musical education came from the records his eldest brother, Jackie, played on a "wind-up gramophone", to which the whole family would sing along. How Shakin' Stevens new album led him to the brother he never knew - BBC News 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The gramophone may be passe, but the ability of technological progress to change who wins - and who loses - persists. Superstar economics: How the gramophone changed everything - BBC News 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Some carry gramophones on their backs, or theremins and sound desks on their fronts. The Funeral Party: scenes from the world's most morbid costume ball 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Some of the items, such as books start from £1 while a gramophone donated by Coldplay has already reached a bid of £2,000 online. Blur drummer Dave Rowntree hosts celeb car-boot sale - BBC News 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Then the listeners would switch on the gramophone. 'Last chance' for museum of secret listeners - BBC News 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z "First off, all glory to God that's for sure," the Compton rapper said in collecting his gramophone statue. Grammy Awards 2016: Who won, who lost, who performed 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z A win for the collaboration with West and Big Sean would give West, who has four nominations this year, his 22nd gramophone. Looking ahead with John Legend: Grammys, Gosling and a baby 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z With the advent of the gramophone, the radio and now the iPod, music is no longer something that you must make for yourself, nor is it something that you sit down to listen to. A Point of View: Why it's time to turn the music off - BBC News 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z From an old-fashioned gramophone horn emerge ancient recordings of Christian hymns, evoking the Nigeria and Ghana of colonial times. West Africa: A forgotten heritage revealed - BBC News 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Later, in a nod to the village’s woodworking tradition, workers produced cabinets for gramophones. Czech Company, Pressing Hits for Years on Vinyl, Finds It Has Become One 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z It was HG Wells who prophesied that "the gramophone will one day be used for language teaching", and he witnessed the evolution of one of the most well-known names in the field of instructional recordings. The bizarre world of instructional LPs - BBC News 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z “I was already familiar with laser cutting records at 78 rpm on acrylic for use in gramophones,” he wrote in a Reddit post. This YouTube User Just Made A Playable Tortilla Record 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z For decades, EMI owned the Gramophone Company, with its emblematic terrier, Nipper, peering into a gramophone horn at the sound of his master’s voice. Taylor Swift may have triumphed, but Apple will still call the tune 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z He is also obsessed with bringing opera to the region, and plays Caruso on a 78 gramophone down the river to bemused natives. Readers recommend: songs about the wilderness | Peter Kimpton 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z This is, I think, not the same as using a gramophone to play Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds records while supping on a craft ale. I have become Boring. And happy | Rebecca Nicholson 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Having an opinion about the big fight feels historical, of a piece with gramophones, running boards, men in hats. The Inevitable Spectacle of Mayweather vs. Pacquiao 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z In the 1940s, for example, the shopping basket included gramophone records, iron bedsteads, and both men's and women's hats. E-cigs, Spotify, and craft beer added to key UK economic tracker 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The 57th Annual Grammy Awards have come and gone, and 83 golden gramophones have been handed out to some of the most talented musicians in the world. Grammys 2015: The Winners And The Losers 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z This year he took home golden gramophones in the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Monster,” his smash track with Rihanna, and for Best Rap Album for The Marshall Mathers LP 2. Eminem's Best Rap Album Victory Averts Iggy Azalea Controversy 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Pentatonix just won its first-ever golden gramophone, earning the nod in the Arrangement, Instrumental Or A Cappella category for its medley ”Daft Punk.” Pentatonix Wins First Grammy In Watershed Moment For A Cappella 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z These two will fight over anything: whether one of them has had too much brandy; whether the neighbors will be bothered by the loud gramophone music; whether adders snap. A Review of Noël Coward’s ‘Private Lives’ in Hartford 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z “I want to dedicate this especially to President Obama,” he said at the end of his speech, holding up his golden gramophone trophy. At Latin Grammy Awards, A Celebration of Obama's Immigration Actions 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z He knew it was dangerous but he couldn't help himself, he kept all these discs and an old hand-wound gramophone in this remote retreat in the hills. When the music ends : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z She was making gramophone recordings by the outbreak of the war and then entertained people on the home front, as well as performing for injured soldiers in hospital. WW1 music hall stars 'had X factor' 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z A spiral groove with sound information was etched into the flat record and the record was rotated on the gramophone. How listening to music has changed 2014-04-21T14:49:17Z Let’s face it, a CD is about as hip a as a wind-up gramophone. Perhaps It's Time To Ditch CDs And Switch To Digital Streaming With An Arcam airDAC 2014-03-31T19:44:00Z One former colleague said he worked in the gramophone library. The Soviet broadcaster who defied Moscow 2014-03-08T01:14:21Z “We all feel like old-fashioned gramophone records,” he said. DealBook: An Aggressive Fed Finds Critics on Wall Street 2014-02-20T20:52:31Z She raised money for the troops, wrote to the men in the trenches and helped to boost morale by sending gifts such as a gramophone to those fighting in the Somme. WW1 music hall stars 'had X factor' 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z You’ll find gramophones dotted about Columbia playing these anachronistic ditties, Stop a moment and listen when you do—some of them are just teriffic. 'BioShock: Infinite' Review (part 2) 2013-04-06T03:42:43Z And the coastal city of Gangneung helped pay for a phonograph-shaped building to hold a local businessman's collection of Thomas Edison memorabilia, including hundreds of gramophones and light bulbs. What Do Mozart, Oprah Have in Common? Big Heads in Korea 2013-03-07T04:47:37Z Sadly, the record went the way of most things when you are a kid - played to death on my dad's old gramophone that had a nail for a stylus. First records, and where you bought them 2013-01-24T02:28:29Z Changing tastes 1930s: The decade sees the music playing on UK gramophones begin to change as American styles like jazz, swing and dance music start to become popular. HMV: A visual history 2013-01-15T16:01:57Z He would like to see a gramophone with a selection of good music in every school. Edward Elgar opens first HMV on London's Oxford St - from the archive, 21 July 1921 2013-01-15T10:39:07Z Nipper, the mascot dog who has looked quizzically down the gramophone trumpet in store windows for more than 90 years, will no longer hear His Master's Voice. 4,500 jobs at risk at HMV as it calls in administrators after rescue talks fail 2013-01-15T01:14:02Z The words 'phonograph,' 'graphophone' and 'gramophone' literally mean 'sound-writing,' for the Greek form graph-, the Latin form scrib-, and the Saxon form write, equally parts of our language, denote exactly the same meaning. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z Those strafed Huns had crammed one of their shrapnel-shells with gramophone needles. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z The store stocks gramophones, radios and popular music hall recordings. HMV: A visual history 2013-01-15T16:01:57Z He recommended the modern gramophone with its superior technical accomplishment to the "wild and virulent piano playing" so painfully popular in the suburbs. Edward Elgar opens first HMV on London's Oxford St - from the archive, 21 July 1921 2013-01-15T10:39:07Z They were playing a gramophone last night—laughing and talking out there on the steps until after one o'clock. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Gramophone Co. of London, in which, in 1906, the Royal Court of Milan held that reproductions of music by gramophone constituted infringement. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z "Is there another man round here who could start off for a month's drive and sell out most of a wagonload of mirrors and gramophones?" A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z Archie peeped into the cinematograph, but judging it not very suitable for his little companions, marched them on to hear the gramophone instead, which was winding out a rather indistinguishable song. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z And he concluded by imploring the Captain to entertain the company by a few selections upon his gramophone. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z I close my chapter of fragments and echoes still abiding with me; men privileged as I was can hear the voice and hate a gramophone. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z For this he will rise and walk about, the ember of his pipe drifting back and forth in the dark, and his gramophone, roused by himself, making its limited obedient effort. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z I might have planted a gramophone on to one of the boys and a few bottles of general-purpose specifics among the rest. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z Then of course there are the usual popular amusements—the inevitable bioscope, the gramophone, and all sorts of shows. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z There was a big gramophone on the boat and they had music, and singing, and the trip home was as enjoyable as it could be. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z Is it to run a little faster in a motor-car, to listen to gabble in a gramophone?—these are the toys of life. The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z Now that I think of it, the gramophone is a kind of hero of my little piece—a kind of David with five tunes to do battle with nostalgia. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z In our saloon were flowers, great bunches of violets, and a gramophone. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z As I was pushing back my chair, having supped, the gramophone broke out again. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Are there no gramophone records of such things? Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z Through it poured the tinny blare of a gramophone hooting a comic song, mingled with rumbling laughter and raised voices. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Until some day there is a javelin in the wall, and a proud black man goes away with a gramophone into the wilderness. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z But that is no longer a protection; they leave the gramophone. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Also I heard the gramophone once more, and felt the returnings of methodical thought. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Two years thereafter, Mr. Emile Berliner of Washington had invented the gramophone, which consists in etching on a metallic plate the record of voice waves. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z In another, a sizeable Victorian-looking contraption of stainless steel, the Sharpsichord — part giant music box, part harp, part gramophone — used a rotating barrel to play deep, bonging counterpoint. Critic's Notebook: Far Beyond the Play Button 2011-07-01T14:55:12Z There is this about a gramophone: it is a thing that speaks the home tongue. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Its place was usurped by the tall stand of a gramophone. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z I had already discovered that the sounds of nasal singing I had heard came from the metal corolla of a gramophone. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z The gramophone records in my convolutions were so badly scratched that I can hardly decipher a line of them. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z This possibility was now afforded by the rolls of the mechanical piano, and, a little later, by gramophone records. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z I remember a small household that was ruined by a gramophone. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Much is to be said in favor of the gramophones. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z It was only then that I learned that the gramophone was Aunt Angela's. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Sybil Beaumont undertook to lend a very superior gramophone; the mother of one of the Juniors promised to send oranges. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z In America I had arranged with a gramophone firm to make records of some of my music. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z The Devil, in the form of a tout, came down the street one Saturday afternoon, with a beautiful gramophone. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Dictaphone, an adaptation of the gramophone, in which the principle of that invention is applied to the requirements of modern business. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z I told this one of the tragedy of Evie's former engagement, and related the affair of the gramophone. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z They listened smiling while the gramophone blared forth selections, and clapped their hands when the Juniors danced for their amusement. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z This is all the more regrettable since it is not a question of a haphazard gramophone record of just any performance. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z And don’t go and sell your gramophone and drawing-room suite, for they are on the hire system, and that would put you in the dock, where I hope you may never be. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z It's very bad for me; it's spoiling my ear; the noise, you know; guns and shells and gramophones and so on.... Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z The gramophone had pride of place in our house. Pete Tong: Soundtrack of my life 2011-03-27T00:02:02Z The gramophone had been placed on a table outside, and the Shetland pony and cart were in readiness near the door. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z The wireless and the gramophone do all that. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z The tally-men, the moneylenders, the flash jewellery touts, the sellers of costly Bibles in series, of gramophones and other luxuries of the mean streets, these are the knaves the State caters for. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Of course he remembered everything, and opened up as fluent as a gramophone. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z Some English officer was there with his gramophone. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z He said God was with the man who invented the gramophone "truly." Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z I was prevented from seeing the Diaghileff performances, as I was urgently wanted in Paris to make some gramophone records, and I did not regret it. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z By tabulating his knowledge and dictating it into a gramophone he can send the cylinder to the university authorities, have it carefully examined, and receive his degree on a postal-card within forty-eight hours. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z Cruiskeen's breathing suggested a cross between a grampus and a gramophone; Philippa's hair had come down, and she had a stitch in her side. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z A modern religion founded on a mysterious gramophone which was discovered carefully packed in a box of peculiar construction on a seat upon Primrose Hill…. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z The girl could hear every word he had said to her in the taxi between church and hotel—hear the whole conversation as though it were being repeated by a gramophone. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z The Diskery stocks an amazing collection of memorabilia including old wind-up gramophones, copies of Melody Maker from as far back as 1947, Matchbox cars and a selection of photographs from the Carry On movies. They're still standing 2011-01-11T23:32:43Z The picture, called His Master's Voice, was bought by the newly formed Gramophone Company on condition Barraud replace the phonograph with a gramophone and horn. 7 days quiz 2011-01-07T05:25:41Z The gramophone ceased; only the music of the fountain stole to him, with a breath of fragrant shrubs that made the incense seem sensuous and heavy. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Failing that, why should we not deal with these questions through the anonymity of a gramophone?… Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Perhaps a banjo strumming in one boat and a gramophone going in the other. H.M.S. —— A mass production of gramophone records for language teaching throughout the world would so reduce the cost that every school could quite easily be equipped with a big repertory of language records. The Salvaging Of Civilisation It's famous for its dog and gramophone logo - what the name of the pooch? 7 days quiz 2011-01-07T05:25:41Z I enter—the great man is up to his knees in documents dictating to a staff of typewriters and gramophones. The Gay Adventure A Romance Through it the music of the gramophone came gaily; and she went toward it and entered the brilliantly illuminated studio. The Moonlit Way I twisted him by the ear into my cabin, he talking along like a gramophone. A Man in the Open The Christmas tree shines with the host of the stars, and I can even forgive my neighbour who plays "While shepherds watched" all day long on the gramophone. The Book of This and That "Certainly not," she answered, very dignified, and trying to forget that they were the words of a comic song she had heard on the gramophone. Helena Brett's Career They had escaped from Oxford and the gas-works, from gramophones and the university boathouse. Years of Plenty Over the wire she could hear the gramophone playing again in the studio. The Moonlit Way Surely, I loved this world I'd so nearly quit, when after supper Iron loosed a gramophone. A Man in the Open "Would you smile, Jenny, if Ronnie here painted you with a gramophone behind a curtain?" Carnival That was curious, and we thought of some of the gramophones we had known, and felt it would have been no disaster if a shell had destroyed the lot! The Romance of the Red Triangle The story of the coming of the red triangle and the service rendered by the Y.M.C.A. to the sailors and soldiers of the British Empire From the distant sound of the gramophone, he gathered that Grace Powers was engaged upstairs with a pupil. Jacob's Ladder The others laid aside cigars and followed him into the studio, where already the gramophone was going and Aristocrates and Selinda were rolling up the rugs. The Moonlit Way Now, when all the teaching is by cinema and gramophone, we realize what a purgatory education must have been in the past. The Head Girl at the Gables Each residency has a gramophone, and some of them have small menageries, including pet bears. Seeds of Pine Many isolated naval stations round the British coast are supplied with cabinets, each one containing a gramophone, library, a supply of writing materials, and games. The Romance of the Red Triangle The story of the coming of the red triangle and the service rendered by the Y.M.C.A. to the sailors and soldiers of the British Empire “Hadn’t I better set the gramophone going first?” Jacob's Ladder Putting on a record–his gramophone was actually in order–and offering cigars, he produced an extraordinary picture of his ship, in needlework. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Some people may be able to sing on a bare platform, without any scenery or fancy costumes, but they sound just about as inspired as gramophones or pianolas. Loyal to the School Well, there is an upright piano, and there is a gramophone with latest musical records, and close by the davenport where hangs a grizzly bear pelt, stands a banjo. Through Our Unknown Southwest While the regimental officers were listening to a gramophone playing the Rakoczy march, a bomb exploded among them. The Forerunners It represented a widow who, in order to hear her deceased husband's voice, had a gramophone put at his empty place at the breakfast table. Atta Troll And a thin, high, metallic voice, like a gramophone's, sounded among the noises. Aliens They reel it off again at exams, with as little intelligence as a gramophone. Loyal to the School Dinner over, the usual crowd settle around the card-table, and the gramophone churns out the same old tunes. Cavalry of the Clouds Come, come," said the general soothingly, "maybe it wasn't written for the gramophone. General Bramble And every morning she sat opposite that gramophone weeping quietly into her handkerchief, gazing mournfully at the instrument—decorated with her dead hubby's tasselled cap—and listening to the voice of the dear departed. Atta Troll Music is intensely popular, and gramophones, pianos and mechanical piano-players have a great sale. Westward with the Prince of Wales There is a gramophone, of course, and the "ship's band" performs on all manner of instruments. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons In the intervals of eating cake I shall write you, and the gramophone will be shrilling "Chalk Farm to Camberwell Green." Cavalry of the Clouds "Doctor," said General Bramble, "this morning I received from London two new fox-trots for my gramophone." General Bramble And now the gramophone has ceased; but, alas! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 Running down the descent, he burst into their midst, seized the offending gramophone and crushed it down with his heel into the flames. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin These memories, however, are not inert and quiescent, like the marks on the vulcanite records of a gramophone; they are vitally active, each one forming a thread in the texture of our personality. The Practice of Autosuggestion "Give us a kiss, give us a kiss, by wireless," pleads the gramophone. Cavalry of the Clouds At that moment the doctor produced such an ear-splitting racket from the gramophone that the interpreter let his Times fall to the ground. General Bramble On the table were a few Arabic magazines, a post-card album, and a gramophone! The Book of Khalid The room was obviously a waiting-room, containing as it did a pianola, a gramophone and a photograph album of German generals. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 18, 1914 The high, falsetto squeak of a gramophone was coming gaily through the portal, and without waiting for an answer Gilbert impatiently put his head through the doorway. Treasure Valley A gramophone in the marquee blared away at popular songs, and the 114 more lively spirits joined in the choruses; one or two even attempted to dance on the grass. The Madcap of the School "Well, Messiou," inquired the general, "have you brought me back any new records from Paris for my gramophone?" General Bramble Some gramophone records have as many as 250 turns to the inch. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use On one veranda a gramophone, the first in the town, screeched out a strain from a Grand Opera to the wonder and admiration of all the neighbours. The End of the Rainbow "Imagine getting married to a strong, silent man," she continued, "with only his strength and his silence, and perhaps a cheap gramophone, to keep you amused in the evenings." Malcolm Sage, Detective In the present day telephones, heliographs, gramophones, bicycles, motor-cars, guns, fireworks, and the latest inventions of all kinds find their way into Morocco. In the Tail of the Peacock It is also possible that the German aeroplanes will cease to fly, and that General Bramble will take a dislike to the gramophone. General Bramble The phonograph—The recorder—The reproducer—The gramophone—The making of records—Cylinder records—Gramophone records. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use He gave a low, half-hearted chuckle over his gruesome suggestion, and lazily getting to his feet, selected another tune for his gramophone. The Rhodesian While the crew was loading the coprah and landing a quantity of goods, the host started his beloved gramophone for the general benefit, and a fearful hash of music drifted out into the waving palms. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Last week a fellow tried to sell me his gramophone, but I had a look at it. Bones in London This difficulty is being obviated by means of gramophone records taken in Belgium, which serve to inure the novice to the sounds of anguish. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 16, 1914 In Fig. 151c the construction of the gramophone reproducer is shown in section. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use Stanley took the gramophone into another hut, and planked it down somewhat roughly on a table, evidently made by an amateur. The Rhodesian At Talamacco Mr. F. offered us his hospitality, and as it rained continually, we were very glad to stay in his house, spending the time in sipping gin and winding up a hoarse gramophone. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific But if education is to mean the substitution of the gramophone and music-hall songs for this traditional art, these native hymns? Appearances Being Notes of Travel The Filipinos are very fond of music, and the cheap gramophones appeal to them strongly. The Critic in the Orient We will content ourselves with saying that the wax cylinder of the phonograph, or the ebonite disc of the gramophone, is generally rotated by clockwork concealed in the body of the machine. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use The gramophone ran down with a horrible grind, but its owner only looked at it dully and took no notice. The Rhodesian During the meal the gramophone, which was nearest to me, finished a record, so getting up I changed the needle and started the other side. 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany The noise and ugly self-assertion of the town, flinging its gas-jets against the moon and covering the roll of the sea with the shriek of the gramophone. The Wooden Horse In many of the poorest houses, however, were gramophones, which are paid for in monthly installments of a dollar or two. The Critic in the Orient The music stopped suddenly, and Mr. Linton wound up the gramophone for the last time, slipping on a new record. Captain Jim Stanley put on "The Stars and Stripes," wound up the gramophone, and slid into his lounge chair again. The Rhodesian Soon a good German gramophone was playing and lunch began. 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany Only in the basement of a house where an acquaintance of hers lodged; and only with clerks and things like that; and only a gramophone. When Winter Comes to Main Street Gradually silence fell upon the scene, broken only by the melodious murmur of numberless gramophones and the soft strains of the band of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 19th, 1914 It was the sound of a gramophone, harsh and loud, wheezing out a syncopated tune. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands Through the enfolding silence breaks the bizarre music of an indifferent gramophone, recklessly mocking the sublime grandeur of the age-old antiquities. The Rhodesian They deserted other relics for a large book of Boer War pictures, whose leaves they turned together, while the old gramophone ran unfalteringly onwards through its extensive repertoire. The Tale of a Trooper On a fine busy night every door blared loud dance music from orchestra, steam pianos and gramophones and the cumulative effect of the sound which reached the street was at least strange. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror The landlord, an unstoppable gramophone of garrulity, entering by the street-door and bearing down upon him, put him to flight. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol They sat in silence for a minute or two and then they both started, for the gramophone began to play once more, defiantly, and mocking voices shouted hoarsely the words of an obscene song. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands Sir Ernest Shackleton as reported in The Evening News:— "The last articles which we took on board were two gramophones with a large number of records and a case of hyacinth blubs." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 An hour of the gramophone, and it would retire below to end its rasping for the day. The Tale of a Trooper These infamous creatures sometimes go as agents for books, gramophones, or machines. Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade Over their heads the tireless voice of the gramophone trumpeted forth its song. The Long Trick In the evening she played through the various reels of her gramophone, but the pretence of mirth was obvious now. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands I've told them to call me if he has a turn for the worse, an' I'm goin' down with a gramophone after dinner, in case the old fellow wants buckin' up. The Keepers of the King's Peace And so on, and so on—oh, the gramophone? A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions Notice in a gramophone shop window:— "Just Suitable for the River." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 From the interior of the Submarine came the strains of a gramophone playing a German patriotic air, and with it the smell of coffee. The Long Trick The gramophone which had been silent for so long was playing, playing ragtime loud and harsh. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands "I should think you were an amiable gramophone," replied her daughter, with affectionate disrespect. The Merryweathers But they were ultimately overpowered, and carried, puffing with exhaustion and helpless with laughter, over the debris of the bridge-table, gramophone and paper-rack, out through the doorway. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions They leave the boredom of Bach and seek the jazz record on the gramophone; they ignore the pictures of Whitman and Blake and study The Picture Show or Funny Bits. A Dominie in Doubt The gramophone stopped with a click, and instantly all was bustle and activity within the narrow confines of the steel shell. The Long Trick He had hurled the gramophone on the floor. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands Sometimes from the old bridge came the noise of a passing car, and once an electric canoe went past them in the main stream, with a gramophone playing on board. Mufti She turned this over and instantly her ears were filled with a strange hollow sound—the sound which a bad gramophone record makes. The Green Rust "No," he said, "we have a gramophone with fox-trots, ragtimes, Beethoven and Melba, and the children nearly always choose the best records." A Dominie in Doubt "Turn on the gramophone, one of you, if you can find it." The Long Trick The singing stopped suddenly, but the gramophone continued to bray out its vulgar tune. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands There was a certain amount of literature—it was never abundant—and there was a gramophone. In Mesopotamia "Doesn't it strike you that it would have to be a pretty smart gramophone to chip in at the right moment?" Jack O' Judgment Then a gramophone is a necessity, and all kinds of records will be necessary—Beethoven, Stravinsky, Rimski-Korsikoff, Harry Lauder, Fox Trots, Sousa. A Dominie in Doubt A door on the right opened for a moment as they passed, and emitted the strains of a gramophone and a boy's laughter. The Long Trick Where is the key to the principle underlying the gramophone, the phonograph and the telephone, if it be not in this self-same atomic and easily impressible medium? Aether and Gravitation A cheap gramophone playing a thin Eastern music, may be sounding. In Mesopotamia "Not such an interest that I'm going to fool around looking for a gramophone voice that goes off at appropriate intervals," said Crewe. Jack O' Judgment As we came down the principal street of the camp, we heard the strains of “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee,” to a gramophone accompaniment, issuing from the chambre des Américains. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France "Would you care to hear the gramophone?" queried the champion of that particular form of entertainment. The Long Trick For lovers of music there is a piano next door and five gramophones within audible distance; an organ plays every Saturday at the house opposite. Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 For her sake the old man—who lived with his daughter during the winter when lodgers were few—had sinned against the law which prohibited his use of the new gramophone. The Privet Hedge "Sounds like one of them there gramophone records, don't it?" murmured Samuel. No Man's Land In the messroom the gramophone is playing, “I'm going 'way back home and have a wonderful time.” High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France "Lord, I wish I had a gramophone to record their conversation outside my cabin while they were packing." The Long Trick A cannon, for purposes of offence or defense, would have been of no more use to Sekukuni than a gramophone. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer She had only a vague sense of uneasiness, which was deepened by the sound of the gramophone next door grinding out "Home, sweet Home." The Privet Hedge Harmoniums, pianos, concertinas, mouth organs, gramophones, tin trumpets, and voices uncertainly controlled, poured forth their strains, mingling and clashing. Nights in London Let us suppose that the Man from the Moon comes to the earth and listens to some music in a gramophone. Creative Unity The gramophone stopped as if by magic, and the overheated juggler caught and retained the soda-water bottle, the corkscrew and the half lemon with a gasp of relief. The Long Trick Various different makes of gramophones will be on view, with a list of tunes most acceptable to the servants'-hall. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914 Nevertheless in the following week, a more romantic explanation was tendered to me it concerned a gramophone. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales "Peace, perfect Peace!" wails an accordion, "Ginger, you're barmy!" snarls a gramophone. Nights in London The facts of the gramophone make us aware of the laws of sound, but the music gives us personal companionship. Creative Unity This looks more wasteful than the common outlay on gramophones, which at least give pleasure. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 The seven-dollar-a-day artisan plays merrily on his gramophone in the broad daylight of his afternoon that is saved, like all else, by being "borrowed" from the morning. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice Then I told him, smilingly, the story of the gramophone. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales A gramophone stands near the left wall, forward. The Straw So that with the pianola, the gramophone, and other means of diversion, the winter nights are not what they were to the people in the years of the nineteenth century. Canada We arrive and stop on the top of the hill in the home of a merchant-peasant, Lopatkin: a fine home--house plants and a big clock and a gramophone. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 It attracted me as did the gramophone, the camera, the automobile. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Then it was that the surmise about the gramophone recurred to me. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales The gramophone is whining out the last strains of Dvorak's Humoresque. The Straw The sergeant-major fastened on to a gramophone; and that caused me for the first time to remember my Columbia graphophone that I had loaned to C Battery before I went home wounded from Zillebeke. Pushed and the Return Push There was a gramophone, but it is broken and out of order. Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police But how many, after they had paraded that mile-long street with its mud, its seething foam of life, its blare of gramophones and its blaze of dance-halls, ached for their southland homes again! The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance He seemed to regard the putting-on of that particular gramophone record at that particular moment as significant. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales They have given place to new styles of furniture, upright pianos and cabinet gramophones. Deep Furrows The gramophone will give us the actual notes of the singer, but it depends upon ourselves as to whether we catch the real thing or not. Spirit and Music For sawing the mitres on large mouldings such as are used on the lid of a gramophone or wireless cabinet, a mitre sawing box and a panel saw may be used as indicated at Fig. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. Muley Hafiz sat drinking his coffee at midnight, listening to the strains of an ornate gramophone, which stood in a corner of his square tent. The Angel of Terror The extinguishing of the lights and the wheezing of a gramophone were followed by the usual "manifestations." The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert There was a click and two doors, ludicrously like the doors which deaden the volume of gramophone music, flew open. The Daffodil Mystery In increasing measure the teaching of music appreciation is coming into vogue, and as an aid to this the piano-player and gramophone are demonstrating their value. Spirit and Music Hetty, she just stands there, just as easy, and hollers back that Cronney has bought a gramophone and how they sets by it day and night listening, and how it's son and daughter to 'em. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Who knew when Emily Davis would be back to do her temperance lecture or how long it would be before they could hear Madame Patti sing “Home, Sweet Home” through a wheezy gramophone? Betty Wales Senior Again he seemed to hear Grant Reeves's rather affected voice speaking far off as if in a gramophone: "Perhaps you won't want to come back to America." A Soldier of the Legion "Some people go on like a perpetual gramophone." For the Sake of the School Therefore the mechanical piano-player with a constant change of rolls, and the gramophone with its ever-increasing list of records, are adjuncts to education which are at present only in the stage of small beginnings. Spirit and Music Mr. Mortimer made a noise like a gramophone when the needle slips, moved restlessly for a moment, then sat up, staring at the candle. The Girl on the Boat Telephones, megaphones and gramophones were ringing throughout the building. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels Presently out came the invaders with their loot—one with a picture, another with a vase, another bearing the gramophone upside down. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm What did seem mysterious was the fact that none of the drivers had seen the gramophone in the road until it had been crushed as flat as a board. On the Fringe of the Great Fight The slogan of the musical advance guard is "a gramophone in every school." Spirit and Music There is not much in the poem, but, like a gramophone record, it carried our minds away into another world. The Great War As I Saw It The music was as reminiscently distinct as if her brain were a gramophone. The Guests Of Hercules Here's one from Dorchester—Smith, the man I got the gramophone from. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm When I visited the divisional cavalry a few months later the Colonel was still carrying forty dollars' worth of records with him but had not yet ordered a new gramophone. On the Fringe of the Great Fight There are only about two things we want, and they are a gramophone, which Winnie is getting for us, and a tennis court, which does not seem probable at present. Letters from France We had a pleasant evening, listening to some remarkably good violin records on the gramophone. The Great War As I Saw It And he will be introduced to you and drop crumbs on my lovely Persian rug, and ask to have the gramophone started. The Guests Of Hercules I stifled a moan of horror, for I am one of the elect few who loathe gramophones, even at their best and costliest. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 The host, devoted to things European, had a musical-box—it was happily before the day of gramophones—which the card-players kept going all night long. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 I am waiting very impatiently for our gramophone to arrive, it is so topping out in the open at night. Letters from France He unfastened the package, produced a gramophone, brought it on to the deck, and started "The Washington Post." Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers There was even a flare of light, now and again, blaring to gramophone accompaniment across the street from a gin-palace or a corner public. Foe-Farrell You can be a Spiritualist and also keep a gramophone, but, if you are Elizabeth, you cannot keep the two running at the same time if you must pay a shilling per week for each. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 There was a group playing Indian card games, there was a crowd round a gramophone with Indian records, at the writing tables with great torment of spirit men were writing to their homes. The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 I wanted to buy a gramophone, a lot of people have them in the dug-out. Letters from France But the gramophone was certainly playing a useful part in warning others off the Saucy Sally, down that fog-laden river. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers They had the run of it now, and, with an enormous basket of strawberries before them, played tunes on the gramophone and roared the chorus. The Loom of Youth When she sought my opinion I strongly advised the s�ances, which I said were cheap at the price; indeed I thought they were when the gramophone departed. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 I strolled back, wondering if at last I should be invited to hear the gramophone—her chiefest treasure. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Will you ask May to get me two catalogues, one of Decca gramophones and one of Master's Voice. Letters from France Lusters jingled to the touch of feathers, cornices shed down their minute particles of dust to the Charybdian maw of traveling gramophone. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Then in No. 1 Lovelace would wind up the gramophone, and the strains of When the Midnight Choo-choo leaves for Alabama broke out with deafening violence. The Loom of Youth To morrow at dawn I shall examine the gramophone records and—they will come in two in my hands. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 As she owned a gramophone and one silk dress, it was clear that her business prospered. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story They had soup, meat, sweet and savoury, all to the strains of a gramophone. Letters from France The flowers on the table are in a German shell for vase, and the gramophone was another village "find." The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914 Down the study passage a gramophone struck up Florrie was a Flapper. The Loom of Youth Indoor games, the gramophone, cinemas and concerts, and especially Indian dramas, were popular in the evening. With Our Soldiers in France Within doors space was naturally more contracted, but the click of the opposite gate, the sound of the next door dinner-bell and gramophone remained, as it were, common property! The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma I am quite rich, I have nearly £30 in the bank, and I am intending to be absolutely extravagant and buy a gramophone, and even then I shall have a nice balance. Letters from France He spoke so rapidly, and so in the style of a gramophone, that I came to the conclusion he was in the habit of holding forth in this strain at intervals of every few minutes. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Every day dawned without a trace of trouble imminent; every night closed with a feed in Mansell's big study, while the gramophone strummed out rag-time choruses. The Loom of Youth Then he had a gramophone brought out to the lawn, and they whisked their clubs about to inspiriting Indian music. Marjorie at Seacote On the small tables were magazines and 'Blighty' newspapers, paper and envelopes were given for the asking, and a gramophone was grinding out the tunes we all loved. One Young Man The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the western front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk. Did you receive my letters asking May to get me gramophone catalogues of Decca and Master's Voice gramophones as soon as possible? Letters from France It was a characteristic tirade delivered in the conventional Teuton gramophone manner. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben It was not a nice sound, but there happened to be a couple of gramophones aboard, and he turned them both on to drown it. Sea Warfare The flustered nurse gropes her way down the ward and stops the gramophone, every patient meanwhile sitting up in bed and protesting against her cruelty in having awakened them by starting it. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital Not the least of the Committee's difficulties and achievements was to get the truth of our cause and policy so defined as to be susceptible of unequivocal statement by poster, leaflet, film and gramophone record. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920 We are very impatient for the gramophone to arrive. Letters from France After dinner we sat outside, playing the gramophone, etc. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years "Will you put a record ready on the gramophone, whilst I write a note," she suggested. The Summons Not only do their regimental bands perform occasionally, but with their proverbial fondness for music the Germans have in some places gramophones in their trenches. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 It seems Mr. Tudor was a great hand at phonographs and gramophones. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Some are too foolishly fond of their mirrors and chandeliers and gramophones. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India The gramophone groaning out the "Merry Widow" waltz seemed to contradict her words, with its accompaniment of tramping feet, laughter and talk. Captivity Meanwhile the gramophone was open and ready, the record fitted on to the disc of green baize and her cavalier in impatient attendance. The Summons A row of gramophones, ranged along the Treasury Bench and supplied with officially prepared records, would satisfy all legitimate curiosity. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 I realize what this proposal means to diplomatists when I try to suppose myself united to assist in the abolition of written books and journalism in favor of the gramophone and the cinematograph. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Here was organization with a vengeance, the mobilization of national thought, a series of gramophone records fed into a thousand different machines so that each might play the selfsame tune. The Man with the Clubfoot The great thing is to make the slip coincide with a groan from the gramophone. Captivity Yes, there the pair of them were, now laughing, now in desperate earnest, practising the fox-trot to the music of the gramophone. The Summons This is the last pleasant music we are fated to hear for many a month, for nothing but concertinas and gramophones are found in the interior. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State To Dr. Graham Bell we are also indebted for the photophone, for the inductoin balance, the telephone probe, and the gramophone. Scotland's Mark on America He procured a gramophone, and, touring the tents, in which the sick men lay, would set the atrocious instrument playing, "Kitty, Kitty, isn't it a pity in the city you work so hard?" Tell England A Study in a Generation The place is furnished with a billiard table and a gramophone with three badly worn records. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Joan looked towards the gramophone in the corner of the room. The Summons On enquiry as to the signification of a song as a unit of value, I learned that since eminent tenors and divas had sung into gramophones, the standard had appreciated. Jaffery Colour Discs for the Gramophone.—The gramophone, by virtue of its table revolving at a controllable speed, comes in useful for a series of optical experiments made with coloured discs bearing designs of different kinds. Things To Make "Well, why on earth," said Doe, impatiently, "do you run your beastly gramophone and your rousing services, if they're not your proper work?" Tell England A Study in a Generation The billiard table is in constant use by a certain element up to midnight, and so are the three eternal records of the gramophone. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Voices rose up to them from the floor above the music of the gramophone. The Summons One offering was a gramophone which nearly drove her mad. Jaffery For exhibition purposes a small, easily running, double-action pump might be worked by the spindle of a gramophone. Things To Make The girls had sometimes "lessons" given them and occasionally story-tellers or gramophone owners amused them. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People With the exception of these two places, the village does not furnish any life or local colour after nightfall, the natives spending their time around the mis-treated gramophones, which are found in almost every hut. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Mr. Price had suddenly begun to live arduously for the gramophone alone. The Lion's Share She did her best, poor child, out of politeness and recognition of his desire to alleviate her lot; but I don't think the gramophone conveyed to her heart the poor dear fellow's unspoken message. Jaffery The discs on which the designs are drawn should be made as large as the gramophone table will take conveniently, so as to be viewed by a number of people at once. Things To Make "The diameter of my own gramophone horn is eighteen inches," writes the sender of the extract. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 A gramophone occupied a side table, and skins and pictures were hanging on the walls. Argentina from a British Point of View The gramophone and the shuffle of feet continued, because Mr. Gilman had expressly desired that his momentary defection with a lady and in obedience to duty should not bring the ball to an end. The Lion's Share Long Ago and A Maid Sings Light form one of the gramophone records made for "His Master's Voice" series by Alma Gluck. Edward MacDowell These eight lived in three rooms and "if you please" they actually bought a gramophone! If Winter Comes We regaled him with wassail and gramophone and explained the situation to him. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 We only waited to hear a few selections of songs on the beautiful gramophone which our host had received a few months ago as a Christmas greeting from England. Argentina from a British Point of View It might have taken place without the owner, but the strains of the gramophone and especially the shuffling of feet on the deck would have disturbed him. The Lion's Share The gramophone is playing an air from La Tosca to which the guns beat out a bass accompaniment. Carry On Letters in War-Time They become villa parasites and odd-job men, and grow basely rich and buy gramophones. Mr. Britling Sees It Through A hundred years ago, except for the gramophone and an occasional gharry, the street might have been the same. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery It must be difficult for those at home to realise what an immense amount of pleasure a good gramophone can give to the dwellers in the far camp lands. Argentina from a British Point of View One does not blame the gramophone if the song is flat, or if the reciter drops his h's. Mount Music The macaw had been a case in point, the gramophone another. The Dark House "Look out for the stick," thinks I. "Woman, am I," she says, musical as a bum gramophone under the slow bell. Pardners There was a round hole in the match-board partition, and the trumpet attachment of the gramophone disappeared beyond the hole. Mr. Prohack So ended my holiday, with hurried packing, much toast-drinking, and a final little farewell dance to the accompaniment of guitar, gramophone, mouth-organ, and accordion. Argentina from a British Point of View He told himself that he had become a gramophone, and a tired gramophone, badly in want of winding up, at that. Mount Music But the old woman rose heavily from her knees and went over to the gramophone, thrusting aside with savage resolution the nurse who tried to intercept her. The Dark House The footman seemed to be on intimate terms with the gramophone. The Pretty Lady The woman in the cubicle near the door was putting a fresh disc on to a gramophone and winding up the instrument. Mr. Prohack Nobody else, in these parts, would have thought Of buying a gramophone. Rada A Drama of War in One Act To the great bazaars of Omdurman, where all things are sold, came a young man from the uttermost deserts of somewhere or other and heard a gramophone. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) He found that she had arrived at her rooms in the hospital with the shrivelled old woman and the macaw and a gramophone. The Dark House Then the footman was told to energise the gramophone, which in its specially designed case stood in a corner. The Pretty Lady "Very sorry, sir," said she, turning her head negligently from the gramophone and eyeing him seriously. Mr. Prohack No questions will be asked of you or of the piano or gramophone, both of which instruments you will find in smooth running order. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. Life runs easily enough, no doubt, in these contented homes, with their regular meals, their bright ugly furniture, their friendly gossip, their new clothes; for amusement the bicycle, the gramophone, the circulating novel. The Silent Isle It is like Peer Gynt—the "Morning" thing on the gramophone, you know; he clinks a toothbrush against a mug, he pours out water. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917 The clever footman started the gramophone, and Lady Queenie began to dance. The Pretty Lady The woman immediately released the catch of the gramophone and lowered the needle on to the disc, and Mr. Prohack heard music, but not from the cubicle. Mr. Prohack The hut just above ours was tenanted by a party of three young Lancers on leave from Rawal Pindi, a gramophone, and a few dogs. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil When it was open and the chisel broken I picked the splinters out of my fingers and contemplated the battered horn of a gramophone emerging from sawdust and shavings. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 I skipped a gramophone emporium and a baby-linen shop and entered a fishmonger's. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919 The gramophone gnashed on the disc until the footman lifted its fang. The Pretty Lady At the end of the lesson they had relaid the carpet and replaced the furniture and enclosed the gramophone and unlocked the door, and Mr. Prohack had issued from the drawing-room like a criminal. Mr. Prohack The gramophone was shrilling in a nasal tone like an old woman without teeth. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel She thanked me for sending back the gramophone. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 They entered a musical instrument shop, and diverted themselves, naturally enough, with gramophones and mouth-organs and trumpets and violins. The Soul of the War By the end of dinner a very cheerful spirit prevailed, and the room was cleared for Ponting and his lantern, whilst the gramophone gave forth its most lively airs. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I But as the timbre of the instrument did not lend itself to successful mechanical reproduction by the gramophone it fell into disuse. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917 A gramophone was continually playing there, grinding out shrill songs to which the guests responded in roaring chorus. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel There is, I cannot but suspect, in the mysterious activities that underlie life, some trade in records for these distinguished gramophones, and it is a trade conducted upon cheap and wholesale lines. An Englishman Looks at the World A gramophone in full song, is also useful. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 The gramophone is usually started by some kindly disposed person, and on three nights of the week the lectures to which I have referred are given. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I "We keep a gramophone in the basement now." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917 I don't think a gramophone would show any record of that. The Willows We installed bookshelves, bootjacks, a sideboard, hat racks, a dumb waiter, a stand for the gramophone and a roll-top desk for the Major. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917 This hospital is very nice and when you come down from London youll see all the flowers and the gramophone which is a fair treat. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 But already a policeman had been sworn, and given his evidence with the decisiveness of a gramophone. Essays in Rebellion To dream of hearing the gramophone, foretells the advent of some new and pleasing comrade who will lend himself willingly to advance your enjoyment. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition |
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