Word: foto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...racy spoken word. But many still survive. The late, great Editor William Rockhill Nelson barred the word snake from his Kansas City Star because he thought readers couldn't take it at the breakfast table. Colonel Bertie McCormick has let some of his simplified-spelling decrees lapse (foto-graf has been compromised into photo-graf), but his Chicago Tribune still uses monolog, tho, frate...
...Sweden's Agfa Foto and Ufafilm companies...
...York Daily News Poll: "Franklin D. Roosevelt will win New York State's 47 electoral votes by a plurality ... so small that the race is a foto finish...
...made. With the possible exception of one strange little man who runs around with cups of loaded coffee, every character comes straight out of the Sears-Roebuck catalogue,--the hero, doughy, and cute; the heroine, sultry siren; the ba-ad, ba-a-ad gangster; the well-greased reporter; beefy foto-man; city editor on the perpetual verge of a nervous breakdown; and then, of course, somebody gets murdered just to start things off with a bang. A perfect set-up for a grade-B picture...