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

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.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike

I paused long in meditation on the scene, till aroused from my revery by the blare of a graphophone from a resort across the street.

From Fly Fishing in Wonderland by Klahowya

A graphophone stood revealed, one of the finest quality.

From Three Thousand Dollars by Green, Anna Katharine

One day a graphophone agent came to the house and the family became interested in one of his musical machines.

From Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls by Turner-Zimmermann, Jean