Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple of weeks, and many dates later, La Rue told Pearl that if he could just get a picture of this loot with a powerful X-ray camera he had, he could run the dame in and collect a big bonus. By the time he dropped Pearl at her pink-curtained, $5-a-week room on Manhattan's grimy West Side, La Rue had asked how she would like to take the picture. Jobless, not-too-bright Pearl Lusk was thrilled...
Snap that Shutter. When she had the route cold, La Rue gave her the X-ray camera: a contraption about as long as a shoebox and camouflaged in Christmas paper. Pearl tried it out on the woman as she left her office, pulling the wire that clicked the shutter. But La Rue said the picture was no good. He would improve the camera, he said, and make it "super...
Follow that Woman. When he gave Pearl the new camera he had made, Rocco-La Rue told Pearl to go to Brooklyn and follow the jewel woman on her way to work. For Pearl the subway ride was more thrilling than anything she had ever read. She went over her instructions -wait until the train reaches Manhattan's Times Square Station, then shoot the picture at hip level, and beat...
...camera was longer and heavier than the first one. Under the Christmas wrapping, Pearl could feel that it had a trigger attachment instead of a string to click the shutter. She gripped the stock hard as the train clattered into the station...
Bikini explosion? Ha! . . . With artists like that loose, it's no wonder, and a good thing, the camera was invented...