Word: captions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with merriment. But the Vagabond, true to his nature, attacked the material--and found it with few exceptions pure gold, a few nuggets of which he will give his readers. For example, the description of some of the advertisements: "The said magazine contained a certain advertisement under the following caption: Gland Glad, Papa's Silent Partner. The aforesaid advertisements represented that the use of its product 'Brings quick animation, ready response, lingering satisfaction. If your vitality is low gladden your glands... Be a he-man'; when in truth and in fact the aforesaid representations were exaggerated and in excess...
...perhaps, the most diverting section is that dealing with another class of advertisements. To quote again: "Under the classified caption. 'Matrimonial' numerous advertisements appeared containing the following representations: under the caption 'Would you marry? Our plan You win We win' the following appeared: 'Thousands of happy clients'. Under the caption 'America's Leading High Class Correspondence Institution' the following representation appeared: 'Ladies worth $75,000., $100,000., $200,000., $300,000. Quick results positively guaranteed'. Under the caption 'Try me first, Pay when married' appeared the name and address of the advertiser... Under the caption 'Wife guaranteed in six months...
...Drys, Consolidated, last week nominated the "Personification of Prohibition,"* Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. The Christian Herald opened her campaign under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA: MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT." Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the Christian Herald's editor, declared that "every prohibitionist in the U. S. . . . will experience disappointment and regret" if this "remarkable woman" is allowed to retire. He called her "the first figure in the whole field of law observance and law enforcement...
Sirs: In your issue of Feb. 11, there is a letter from J. B. Scott, Beacon, N. Y., under the caption "Not Free," which states, in part, as follows: "The Y. M. C. A. did not practice giving away anything-unless 'beaucoup francs' were pressed on them by the soldiery." It happened that while I was reading this letter, there was on my desk five typewritten folios, embracing 1,250 pages, covering the report of the Inspector General of the A. E. F., on the investigation of the Y. M. C. A. with the American Expeditionary Forces...
...departments took up a lot of space. Under the caption "Life Abroad" there were several columns of news briefs from all around the world, with a waggish commentary appended to each. The other department, of a similar nature, came out as Life at Home...