Word: caption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secured a skull from the hospital, got some wrecked portions of automobiles and filled the window with pictures of wrecked vehicles in this vicinity. Note the dummy in the wreck. Mercurochrome spread over the clothes and floor gave it a ghastly bloody appearance. Above the shrouded skull was the caption "Too Late To Enroll...
...something about Chinese art, advises the sensible lecturer, let him get Chinese brushes and ink and try it. Scattered throughout the book are no less than 180 drawings ranging from scraggly diagrams to colored sketches of a Dutch harbor intended to show how painters of different schools depicted it. Caption: "As for the nonobjective virtuosi, they, of course, had the easiest time of all, for they could just as well have done the job in the barroom of the Players' Club...
This brief caption, flashed on the screen, was all the warning U. S. cinemagoers had last week before the usually innocuous newsreel plunged them into such a bloodbath of visual horrors as few of them had ever imagined. Shown throughout the U. S. these were the first frankly gruesome newsreels of the Shanghai shambles to reach the U. S. Hundreds of feet of this hastily, dangerously made record had been ground out by cameramen under fire or within a few minutes after shellburst or bomb-explosion. They tell, as pitilessly as only the camera can, what war means...
Best laugh of the campaign was provided by a widely circulated picture showing grey, bespectacled Mayor Shaw seated in an automobile with President & Mrs, Roosevelt with the National Capitol in the background. The picture's caption: "This heretofore unpublished photo shows President and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Los Angeles' dynamic Mayor, Hon. Frank L. Shaw, motoring near the National Capitol during Mayor Shaw's recent visit in Washington." Candidate Ford offered "final and conclusive" proof that Mayor Shaw had not motored with the Roosevelts in Washington, that a picture taken when Mayor Shaw rode through...
Cartoon. To tall Clarence Daniel Batchelor of the New York News (TIME, Oct. 26) went the $500 cartoonist's award for a picture of a harlot labeled "War" enticing a boy labeled "Any European Youth." Caption: "Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your daddy...