Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photograph of Clark Gable . . . is indeed the best I have ever come across. . . . I shall frame it and place it in a prominent position in my study. . . . However, upon close examination I believe that Gable should have taken a haircut before the picture was taken...
...went to bed he presided in the magnificent "Locarno Room" of the British Foreign Office at the signing of a new Treaty of Alliance between Britain and Egypt (see cut). Some five months of expert drafting produced this pact and to get Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London papers called him "The Prince of Pacificators"-this accolade reputedly having been bestowed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, who received his knighthood for having been...
Around the head is no frame; no collar is visible; on the stamp appears not even the King's name but simply the word POSTAGE, the denomination and a very small crown off in a corner. When Post Office wickets opened to sell this issue last week, critical officials spoke of "testing the new stamps" and of substituting something more usual if they proved unpopular. In rushed hordes of the King's subjects and bought hand-over-fist some 30,000,000 Edwards. After this not even the crustiest oldster could well call the new King...
...stupidity showered upon the entering Freshman in the guise of advice, surely none exceeds that of the paternally inclined well-wisher who proclaims, "My son, whatever else you may do, choose one thing and do that well." And the neophyte, being often of a serious frame of mind, that is to say of great potential value to Harvard and in a position to get much out of Harvard, usually rushes into something that he thinks he is interested in and by the end of his first and best year is thoroughly tied-down, perhaps bored, often disappointed...
...taken from corpses, made transparent by a secret process, dyed, photographed in color, enlarged, projected on a screen in three dimensions. From these projections artists made tracings which were used by sculptors to model the organs which actually went into the figure. The viscera as well as the glassy frame of the transparent woman are made of a material called cellhorn, which is tough, resilient, impervious to temperature and humidity...