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Word: graphics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maitresse de Roi" is nothing if not graphic. There is great beauty in its stage designing, a meticulous eye for details, and more than an attempt at recalling the best of French art in the little scenes within scenes in which the Comedie Francaise revels. The play is a show-piece. It has the further advantage for foreign consumption that it is readily understood. The enunciation of the players is nicely turned to aid foreign ears. But it is not necessary to depend upon the actors' speech. There is the program to fall back upon; and the very situations themselves...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/12/1927 | See Source »

Bernarr Macfadden's New York Evening ("Porno") Graphic has been publishing a series of articles on the Negro, spiced up with intimate glimpses of Harlem and faked pictures of lynchings. Obviously, such material was intended to boost the Negro circulation of the Graphic. But the sheetlet, in its exuberance for the sensational, went too far and stepped on the toes of many a Negro when it set about to flay Booker Taliaferro Washington. Said the Graphic: "There are not lacking thousands of intelligent Negroes who believe that Booker T. Washington, consciously or unwittingly, betrayed his color and his kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Washington Flayed | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...infamous attack, a gross distortion," replied the Pittsburgh Courier, famed Negro weekly newspaper, as its correspondent started an anti-Graphic movement in Manhattan last week. Negroes object to having their hero and educator bandied about in the columns of a pornographic sheetlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Washington Flayed | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...might become his rival, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, he has a quiet gentlemanly agreement whereby they jointly own, but Baron Beaverbrook controls, the Daily Express and Evening Standard. Third of the London news titans whose newspapers are really national is Sir William Berry, who controls the Daily Graphic (Independent) and dabbles much in provincial newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rothermere Sued | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...Illustrated London News, Sketch, Sphere, Tatter, Men's Wear, Eve, Draper's Record, Graphic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rothermere Sued | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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