In Addis
v Gramophone Co [1909] AC 408, the plaintiff was not entitled to the «harsh and humiliating way» in which his contract of employment had been broken.
The obstacle to recovery lies in the normal rule exemplified by the House of Lords» case of Addis
v Gramophone Co [1909] AC 488, [1908 - 10] All ER Rep 1, namely that damages in contract will not be awarded for mental distress or anguish.
I wish
I had a gramophone and a...
Not exact matches
Info Edge said in a stock - exchange filing that it will
have a 25 % stake in
Gramophone after this initial investment.
Ever since Enrico Caruso was first pressed on one of those scratchy, one - sided 78s for Mr. Edison's new
gramophone machine, nearly every musical performer
has felt compelled to issue a Christmas album, and the sheer bulk of that music adds up to more than anyone could listen to in a thousand holidays.
Last week, EMI's classical division received the
Gramophone award for its first collection of restored mono recordings by Elgar, and was still promising that future releases
would include a «previously unpublished true stereo version».
Well, the Grammy people don't normally hand out their statuettes alt - country luminaries such as Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams, let alone, six of them, which is how many gilded
gramophones the recovering alcoholic
has won over her Shania Twain - like career.
Twentieth - century technology, from the
gramophone to the cassette tape to the MP3 player,
has taken music off the page.
I am guessing minus ten and moonlight, and then I will stoke the fire, put a record on the old
gramophone with Billie Holiday's voice almost a whisper, like when I heard her in the Oslo Colosseum some time in the 50s, almost burned out, yet still magic, and then fittingly get drunk on a bottle I
have standing by in the cupboard.
When I was a child, we
had five
gramophone records.
During 2009 - 2010 Aura
has been artist - in - residence at the Ear Institute, where she completed a film on
gramophone grooves and sound inscriptions, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Well, it is true that some people thought
gramophones threatened the end of civilization as we know it; I confess that I'm not aware of anyone
having made a technical argument that there is a «social cost of rock and roll» but metaphorically they certainly did!
The Music screen
has a beautiful layout with the disc and you can drag the pin over the disc to start playing the music just like on a
gramophone.