Word: camera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press stand, Writer H. L. Mencken took off his coat, revealing a cocoa-colored shirt and loud suspenders. Next to Writer Mencken, Publisher Alfred A. ("Borzoi") Knopf of the American Mercury climbed up on the desk and exposed several yards of film in his small cinema camera. Then, saving the film in case something else should happen, Publisher Knopf sat down again...
...picture than making a swim. I had to spend money on her to make her think she was being pursued by reporters, found it next to impossible to get my publicity-crazed sister into the water to train unless it was to the accompaniment of the click of camera shutters. She was so spoiled. ... I spent money for private photographers. This was necessary as we were so far from Los Angeles that newspapermen came out rarely. ... I want her to pay the $800 I spent...
...Washington, the party chosen to board the Coolidge Special for Brule grew to 60, to 80, to 90. The total number included newsgatherers and camera men, but did not account for Rob Roy (white collie), Terrible Tim (red chow), Diana (white collie), Bessie (yellow collie), King Cole (black police dog) and the five White House canaries, all of whom were going...
Invented: a camera which will operate at an altitude of more than 30,000 feet, penetrating hazes and photographing in a single exposure an area of over four square miles, automatically timed and operated, electrically heated to prevent freezing, making an exposure nine by eighteen inches in size...
...inventors: the U. S. Air Service and the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation...