Word: victrola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office force at the Headquarters in Germanic Museum are finding considerable relief and relaxation in the newly opened Day Room which has been rather attractively furnished with ping-pong table, easy chairs, victrola, piano, and various games...
...early Victrola era, a prized record was the $7 single-sided Sextet from Lucia, sung by Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...
...Bellboys, under the chairmanship of Elmor Taylor '42, staged the first dance of the year Saturday night with music provided by a victrola. More than 65 couples paid their...