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Word: captioning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following caption accompanied a picture of Vinton Chapin '23, in the Photographic Weekly of the Daily Princetonian for January 17: "Vinton Chapin, recently elected captain of Harvard's 1925 eleven. He plays half-back, is an adept receiver of the forward pass, and an excellent open field runner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OTHER CHEEK | 1/24/1925 | See Source »

...Conservative poster shows Hubert Herkomer's famed Worker on Strike. He stands glowering at the door of his house, while his wife with her child in her arms hides her face in misery on his shoulder. The caption is "The Socialists promised me work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Election Campaign | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

...doubt your caption writer considered his use of the winner's name an amusing one. That the phrase should have been allowed to stand shows an unpardonable carelessness, at the least, in your editorial department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Equivocal | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...Daily News (so called "gum-chewers' sheetlet") published his picture on its front page. Caption: "TRIED TO FORGET.?J. K. Mitchell 'heavy sugar papa' of slain Dot King, returned with wife from Europe yesterday. They're shown leaving ship here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ship News | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...Northern Africa, posted at Hellville, Island of Nossi Be, Madagascar. Under its supercription is the note, "120 in the shade;" on the reverse side is a photograph of some twenty or more white-clad, topi-topped backs along a verandan railing, the owners facing a door-the caption is: "Waiting for the bar to open". And the message...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOTS AND TITLES | 5/16/1924 | See Source »

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