graphophone
Example Sentences
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But five- and six-piece dance bands were turning out huge piles of graphophone records, and we tried to buy them all.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
On the corner below the tea-house was still open, and the invariable graphophone was grinding out some indistinguishable tune.
From Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
There was an excellent musical library at Storm, and the best records to be had for the graphophone were sent to her regularly.
From Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Then he burst out suddenly: "Ye know the graphophone an' the kodak and the biograph an' all them things what ye can see down to Keene?"
From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
Great is the graphophone, advance agent of civilization!
From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Clarence Hamilton Poe
