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

Here we lodged all night, enjoying a graphophone entertainment in the evening.

From A Woman who went to Alaska by Sullivan, May Kellogg

She immediately opened the door and led him out into the hall, where Farwell and the two girls were amusing themselves with the graphophone.

From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

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

His explanations of the presence of the graphophone in this inner office were feeble and contradictory.

From Three Thousand Dollars by Green, Anna Katharine