Word: captioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Dec. 2 under the caption "Education" you comment on Dr. William G. Thayer's retirement as Headmaster of St. Mark's School. TIME'S lack of space undoubtedly prevented the correspondent from writing many complimentary things about Dr. Thayer, of his influence on the many hundred boys who have been placed under his care for six years and in what high regard and affection he is held by all graduates, but irrespective of the lack of space, no mention of St. Mark's School or Dr. Thayer is complete without mention...
LISTEN TIME HOW CAN YOU CAPTION PIANIST MARGARET SHOTWELL A BROKEN DOLL WHEN SHE HAS THE GUTS TO KEEP ON LIVING AND WORKING IN SPITE OF HER LOST FORTUNE STOP HOW CAN YOU CALL THE GIRL A DOLL WHO DEVOTES EIGHT HOURS A DAY TO THE PIANO WHEN SHE MIGHT WITH HER YOUTH AND CHARM BE MAKING...
Enemies dragged the name of Clemenceau into the Panama scandals of the '90s. Though falsely accused he lost his seat in parliament, seemed ruined. But another scandal?the Dreyfus case?made him a hero. As editor of L'Aurore he wrote the famed caption "J'Accuse!" above the most potent of many articles by Emile Zola which eventually freed Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus from "Devil Island," where an anti-Semite French government had sent him to rot. The fight to free Dreyfus took six of Clemenceau's and Zola's best years. Last week the grateful captain stumped around...
What an alluring caption is the title "The United States of Europe"! How skillfully it sets forth in five words the regeneration of mankind, suggesting the solution of the tremendous issues of the twentieth century and at the same time delicately alluding to the great and successful United States of the New World. It is undeniable that the chief republic of North America has solved, with reasonable success, the problem of reconciling vast areas and immense populations with a comparatively simple and understandable federal system. It is equally undeniable that since the fall of the Roman Empire nearly fifteen centuries...
Advertisements which knock instead of boosting have become rare in the U. S. But last week appeared, in some 600 newspapers throughout the U. S., a caricatured robot brutally plucking a harp over which hung a weeping muse (presumably Euterpe) and beside which sat a howling hound. The caption was: "The robot as an entertainer-Is the substitution for real music a success?" The advertising "story" appended was the American Federation of Musicians' complaint against substituting mechanically synchronized music for orchestras in theatres...