Word: lanterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elapsed before Uncle Sam appeared as a cartoon character. In 1844 London Punch published a personification of the U. S. (called Brother Jonathan) as a young mischievous fellow with his thumb to his nose. In the U. S. the first cartoon of Uncle Sam appeared in the New York Lantern, comic weekly, of March 13, 1852 (see cut). The artist was F. Bellew. The scene called "Raising the Wind" was supposed to depict the struggle between a U. S. shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew...
...monthly meeting of the New York Microscopical Society pursued its calm way fortnight ago until Dr. Maximilian Toch, michro-chemist, arose to speak. Dr. Toch's specialty is the analysis of paint, the verification of works of art by microphotography. To the assembled scientists he showed numerous lantern slides, explained his theory: a painting may be identified by magnification of the artist's brushstrokes, which are as characteristic as his handwriting. Like a firecracker came a specific statement: None of the Rembrandts in the Metropolitan Museum is genuine, with the possible exception of The Gilder from the Havemeyer Collection...
...Stevenson and the Scottish Highlands," with lantern slides, Mr. Hersey, Emerson...
...chairman was using his high office to crystallize Wet sentiment against them, to pledge the Democracy against Prohibition long in advance of the national convention. Tennessee's Dry Senator Cordell Hull began the pleading: "My God! The Democratic party has never had such an opportunity. Why take a lantern and search out something on which we can divide? Let us leave this question alone...
...forthcoming book will have illustrations made from actual specimens which have been prepared and are on file at the laboratory. Photomicrographs to the number of 168 and 72 lantern slides have been made and mounted. This is in the with the department's chief purpose, which is to compile clinical data and satistics with the necessary pathological and histological specimens so that it may give answers to problems based upon scientific research...