graphophone
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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
And after that they wound up the graphophone and heard a lovely song, which I’m going to tell to you because it was so pretty.
From Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox by David Cory
His explanations of the presence of the graphophone in this inner office were feeble and contradictory.
From Three Thousand Dollars by Anna Katharine Green
The place is buzzing with soldiers, a game of billiards is going on in one corner and in another a graphophone is never allowed one moment's rest.
From A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall by Katherine Shortall
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
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