Word: 1700s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pictures were used in the 1700s for the same reason that they are used today: to catch the eye of the reader and lure him into reading the ad. At first their use was infrequent, because they were too expensive. But in the early 1800s one Abel Bowen, engraver, produced a batch of stock woodcuts, laid them out for cheap sale to magazines, newspapers...
...Century, for whom it was written, went out of style, Händel's opera The Faithful Shepherd has been a flop. But its stately, gentle ballet music, resurrected by Sir Thomas Beecham, is still as fetching a job of periwigged melody as ever came out of the 1700s...