Word: caption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sketch of a tardy couple on a wharf watching a liner disappear on the horizon with the caption below "Don't just stand there. De Something!" Dr. Wells says is a perfect illustration of one of the many things that drives people insane. The picture of a fireman training a great stream of water on a blazing building and exclaiming "Geez, I hope the chief is watching," is the best medium that there is to show an inexperienced student that every individual on earth desires praise...
...weeks ago the University of Chicago celebrated Alonzo Stagg`s fortieth year as coach of its football team. The day before yesterday, the Daily Maroon, undergraduate newspaper, published an anonymous letter urging Stagg to resign his caption. "The Daily Maroon takes this opportunity to present without comment a communication received from a student of the university. Members of the university community who hold other views are invited to make use of this column...
Another picture caption: "Grotesquerie: A polisher traversing belt edges, not an armadillo out for a walk...
...People Who Think," this was "A Paper For People Who Drink." It was all very gay. On the front page were seven little pictures of Miss Davies, one big picture of her in pajamas; and a bigger picture of a group of platter-lipped Ubangi natives with the caption: "Friends Meet Famous Star At Train. . . . Davies stepped off the train this morning all aglow with hives." There was a burlesque of Arthur Brisbane's "Today" colyum, called ''Doomsday, by Arthur Membrane." Excerpt...
...your issue of Sept. 21 under the caption "Landing Gandhi" occurs the following sentence: "Among the volunteer workers of the Settlement House eager to skim the Mahatma's goat's milk were...