Word: captioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drawings are unusually good. "Mother Manhattan" is as well done and as effective as any of the similar things to be found in the pages of Lampy's more professional cousins. "Friendly Enemies" is a clever variation on the one-horse-town theme, although the caption is infinitely superior to the drawing itself. On the other hand "The Canonization of a Saint" contains better drawings that the caption deserves...
...absolutely true. His medium is a cartoon entitled "Believe It or Not," which appears daily in the New York Evening Post and 100 other newspapers. His greatest hornswoggling of the "lie"-hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh was the 67th man to make a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean." Three thousand indignant letter-writers demanded that Mr. Ripley apologize. He calmly informed them that Alcock and Brown made a nonstop flight between Newfoundland and Ireland in 1919, that 31 men were aboard the English dirigible...
...possible that you could expect any dog fancier to subscribe for or advertise in a magazine that could countenance or publish such an ignorant, derisive, misleading article as appeared in your SPORT column, Feb. 27 issue, under the caption of "Putting...
...about "It;" Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary ran along in pictorial form so that no gum-chewer could miss the point. In the Mirror were photographs of a Negro and a white baby, "brought together by fate" at the Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. The Negro infant got the caption...
Once an Eastern newspaper ran on its front page a box headed, "Who Robert Dollar Is." Under this caption were listed his formal titles and offices-President Dollar Steamship Company, Robert Dollar Company, Admiral Oriental Company, Dollar Portland Lumber Company, etc. etc., Director of the American International Corporation, Anglo-London and Paris Bank, San Francisco Savings Bank. Dollar ships, Dollar wood, Dollar banks, Dollar offices in eastern cities the smooth plate-glass windows of which are never molested even when yellow men demonstrate with sabotage the unpopularity of foreign capital. Listed, these things suggest but fail to explain Robert Dollar...