Word: caption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best of its cartoons (by Ogg Fitz-Gerald of the Wall Street Journal) showed a wide-eyed, wavy-eared white rabbit with a magician's wand in its paw (see cut), pulling Franklin Roosevelt from a silk hat, over the caption: "THAT'S NEWS!" Some of its fantastic side lights on Recession...
Especially galling to Harvard's faculty was the Crimson'?, disclosure that Wolff's had displayed an advertisement showing a robed senior with the caption: "Diploma by Harvard-Tutoring by Wolff...
Institutionalized advertising takes its form in such ads as Manter Hall saying, "Ask Dad, Ask Grand-dad About the Widow's." A University Tutoring School ad deplored the oppressiveness of college work as follows; "midnight oil; loathesome toil." Wolff's displays a robed Senior with the caption; "Diploma by Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff...
...four pages on the broadside is occupied by a cartoon depicting Chairman Ernest R. Caverly of the Brookline School Committee balancing three Charley McCarthys on his knees. The caption reads, "Curtain! Action! KERINS!!!" The cartoon was drawn by Charles M. Kerins, which fact opponents have pointed out as an indication of the widespread nepotism that will prevail if Kerins gets elected...
...longer can the "Social Justice" masthead proudly flaunt the caption "by permission of his Ecclesiastical Superior"; no longer will it be possible for thinking people to construe criticism of Father Coughlin as criticism of the Catholic Church. Those who persist in contributing to the Social Justice Publishing Company, which in turn pays for the Father's weekly broadcasts, should realize that their money is financing not a religious but a political campaign...