Word: captioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the cut-caption: "By the marvelous Bartlane process of photo-transmission by cable, THE NEWS today is able to print the above photo of kings and princes yesterday trudging in the snow to pay last tribute to Queen Alexandra...
...address myself to this question by an article which has recently appeared by my learned friend and colleague, Professor Edwin M. Borchard of the Yale Law School. In the CRIMSON, his article was given the caption "Question of Joining World Court is of Trivial Importance," and while he might disavow such a conclusion the general emphasis of what he wrote was certainly in that direction...
...Carmack, cartoonist to the Christian Science Monitor, key-noted events in Italy last week with the caption "MUZZLE-INI" over the sketch of an Italian peasant, gagged and muzzled by a steel mask labeled "Fascism," while Il Duce, throned in the background, looked grimly...
...Daily News was first. In its pages appeared the photograph of a man who had just been struck by a truck. He was shown lying on his back on the pavement, a disheveled white-faced form, under the caption SPEEDY WORK BY CAMERA MAN. As a matter of fact, the "speedy work" was not so notable as it might have seemed, for the accident had occurred within a stone's throw of the editorial rooms of the News; a camera man had merely to dash down stairs and run a block to take the offensive photograph. In this example...
...certainly conservative, both as to makeup and contents, but at least we treated the English language with some degree of respect. We were very much afraid of imitating the yellow press. It was not until 1907 that we permitted ourselves a triple head over a news story or a caption of any kind over an Editorial. . . The paper was indispensable because of its notices, but I don't believe it was generally read, except by the editors...