Word: caption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prize picture in the pamphlet was that of Brooklyn's benign, blue-eyed Boss John H. ("For Success") McCooey milking a cow. Its caption: "A jolly family man from Brooklyn who loves milking." It was taken ten years ago when Boss McCooey participated in a milking contest for the benefit of the Brooklyn Tuberculosis Association. When ''Farmer John" McCooey was shown the pamphlet, he let out a disarming chuckle: ''Why shouldn't the school children have this book? It would prove an inspiration to them to see how the Democratic leaders Lave succeeded . . . (thumbing...
...those correspondents who saw ''contradiction" between the U. S. domestic program for business revival and his own brand of low-tariff internationalism. Hardly had he issued his statement when the London Morning Post popped out with a cartoon of Uncle Sam standing on his head, and the caption paraphrasing Lewis Carroll...
...your issue of May 9, you caption a reference to "Slave Virginia" as "Yankee Common Sense...
Beatrice Lillie in a white tunic hangs in mid-air exhorting and pointing upward. Caption: "The nation asks for action and action now. President Roosevelt's Inaugural Address...
Outraged by the implication that he. a graduate of the University of Vienna, represented "the next thing to a gorilla scientists have been looking for," Zbyszko hired Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays, sued for $250,000. Defense lawyers insisted that the American's caption meant only that the wrestler was as strong as a gorilla. But Wrestler Zbyszko was able to show that his wife had learned to call him "gorilla" as a term of contempt. The jury found libel, awarded...