Word: captioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caption of the photograph of the present Supreme Court [TIME, Oct. 26] is not quite up to par. Paraphrasing the old hymn, it might well have been-"Change and decay in all around I see," or with the addition of a few banjos and a very little black face the old minstrel show salutation-"Gentlemen, be seated" might be in order...
Whoever wrote this Japanese caption for the cartoon did not do a good job of it, for the text actually says: "For Our Birthday present, find out the name of the country that bombed Japan." Which makes it anything but a piece of effective propaganda, and sounds ridiculous, if I may say so, because every Japanese must know which country bombed Japan...
...erase DEATH TO THE TRAITORS OF VICHY, ANNET FOR THE GALLOWS and many another slogan. One morning they found that nearly all the red lights of the traffic signals had been decorated with the Cross of Lorraine. They tried to trace the origin of a stenciled angel with the caption ANGEL OVER MADAGASCAR. They collected by the thousands leaflets with the emblem and the added injunction: AUX ARMES, CITOYENS...
Captain G. N. Barker, U.S.N., commanding officer of the Naval Training Schools at Harvard University. A biological sketch about him . . . appears on the inside section of this issue of The Scuttlebutt. --Caption from The Scuttlebutt...
That day, in the page-one space usually occupied by its cartoon, the Tribune displayed under the caption "The Citadel" a picture of Tribune Tower with the U.S. flag waving above...