Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tourist traffic in Palestine once consisted mainly of pious pilgrims, Sunday school teachers and lantern-slide lecturers. Today, what with Zionism and Palestine's private little surge of prosperity (TIME, Dec. 10), tourism is also on the upgrade. But if intelligent exploitation has brought a golf course to Galilee and good cocktails to the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, it has not yet produced any change in the conduct of the Holy Land's traditional attractions, Biblical sites. This fact profoundly depressed Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of The Christian Century, visiting Palestine on a cruise last month. Last...
...Sheehan, a dapper man of 50, appeared with eight pairs of lifelike, flesh tinted, before-&-after models of faces which he had repaired, and two similar pairs of hands. He displayed colored lantern slides of dozens of before-&-after faces. Lastly he ran off a colored movie* of an operation to repair a young woman's paralyzed features. The policemen grunted and whistled as they saw Dr. Sheehan inject novocaine and slice the conscious girl's head from eyebrow to ear, nick a rent at the corner of her lips. The girl's chest heaved...
...this General Göring had invented a completely new uniform with what seemed to be a great white bib jutting from under his lantern jaw. With no time to change uniforms at the City Hall, he whipped off his bib, snapped on a different detachable chestload of medals, donned a shimmering white scarf across his blue-grey chest...
...Dionne case leaves me cold. I have something to show you." Thus spoke Obstetrician Edward Armin Schumann of the University of Pennsylvania last week, at a gynecologists' meeting in New Orleans. Upon a screen flashed a lantern-slide picture of six wizened black babies, alike as shoe-buttons. Continued Dr. Schumann: "Here are sextuplets, born to a mother on the African Gold Coast, without the help of modern medicine, without any Dr. Dafoe. These babies were alive and well after eight days, I am informed in a letter from a missionary friend...
...subject of an illustrated public lecture to be given under the auspices of The Georgian Society of America by Frederic C. Palmer '25, of New London, Conn., architect and authority on Colonial buildings, at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Robinson Hall. The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides from recent photographs by the speaker...