Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visiting celebrities have proved camera-shy, as the many photographers who are rushing about Cambridge have found out. A few have compiled pleasantly with the demands of the press, and some have even offered the camera men suggestions...
Arthur H. Compton proved the pleasantest subject. He posed in his room and talked to the camera man almost an hour on the intensity of cosmic rays, and rocket ships. He held that in time we may be making journeys to the moon and the planets. He said that science was delayed by lack of funds and that we won't have another stratosphere flight for some time as it cost about $160,000 for a balloon. The photographer was referred to Jean Piccard who would only say that it costs "an enermous amount...
Professor Vere Gordon Child kindly reminded the photographer that he had not set his camera right, and showed him the proper setting. Professor Peter Dobye said American youth needed a Hitler to give them action, as had been done in Germany. Professor Edgar D. Adrian was one of the few who refused to have his picture taken, terming it an "ignorant, embarrassing situation...
...Majesty cut the conversation, saying with sarcasm: "Look here, if you don't stop it, Baldwin, I won't attend your beastly old Coronation." The King on his Balkan holiday last week went about with Mrs. Simpson and his other guests taking pictures with a small German camera. Once when a police-man seized a camera from a press photographer who was snapping King Edward, His Majesty intervened. Taking the camera away from the policeman, Edward VIII handed it to the cameraman, saying with a grin, "Here, take your camera back." Trunks belonging to His Majesty were labeled...
...years after Tunney's retirement, Sharkey and Schmeling, final survivors of a prolonged elimination tournament, fought for the title. Schmeling won on a foul. In 1932 Schmeling lost the title to Sharkey on points. In 1933 Sharkey lost it to Camera. In 1934 Camera lost it to Baer. In 1935 Baer lost it to James J. Braddock who, of his preceding 25 fights, had contrived to win only ten. To enable Braddock, whose shortcomings were increased by the unanimous if somewhat unreasonable sports-page definition of his character as "colorless," to gain a living from the title...