Word: caption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detective had just settled down to enjoy the latest issue of Bernarr Macfadden's True Detective Mysteries when a face staring from the pages made him jump. The face was that of a man whose furtive behavior he had marked while strolling his beat a few days before. The caption identified him?Walter Clyde Davis, wanted in Colorado Springs for embezzling $500,000. Last week the detective found his man again, arrested him. Unprotesting, Davis went along, hanged himself in his cell...
General Robert E. Lee, astride his white horse Traveller, shone bravely from the frontispiece of the Confederate Veteran's December issue, published last week in Nashville. Beneath the picture was the caption: "I can only say that he is a Confederate Gray." It was the magazine's farewell salute, after 40 years' service. Death had cut the ranks of Confederate veterans to 4,500. Depression had forced the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which kept the magazine alive in recent years, to withdraw its support. Circulation of the final issue was 6,000. Its peak had been...
...Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, commemorating the first aeroplane flight; for TIME thoughtfully mentioned the architects-Rodgers and Poor (TIME, Nov. 28). Newspapers and magazines rarely give architects and sculptors credit for their creations, albeit painters invariably rate a good story with their names featured in every caption. Incidentally, gifted Architect Robert Perry Rodgers is brother of the late and famed Commander John Rodgers, U. S. N., D. S. M., pioneer in naval aeronautics, mine-removing hero of the North Sea Barrage, trans-pacific flyer. And, curiously enough, the material used for the Kitty Hawk monument is likewise linked...
...offered under the head: "WRAP HER UP AND TAKE HER HOME." His was the direction, but about-townish writers like Margaret Fishback turned out the copy. A Macy-Collins-Fishback advt. of last week: a naked "brand-new baby, hot off the griddle," yowling lustily for "hand-knit woolies." Caption: "NATURE IN THE ROAR...
...rotogravure section of the dignified Providence Journal. In a dozen different poses he was depicted as the "All-round Man"-lawyer, statesman, soldier, traveler, tennis player, public speaker, heman. Three of the pictures showed muscular Democrat Green stripped to the waist-chopping a tree, wrestling and, over the caption "Builder," heroically lugging stones...