Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the cooperation of Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, and his recently established committee for elementary language instruction, prints, maps, books, magazines, and other illustrative material, together with a stereoptican lantern and a phonograph, have taken their place in the new quarters...
...Tokyo, Alumnus Baron Ino Dan (Graduate School, 1917-1918), of the potent banking firm of Mitsui, was so delighted to find a Japanese lantern exactly 300 years old that he packed it off to Cambridge in care of his friend Professor Masaharu Anesaki...
Director of Publicity Alfred Henry Kirchhofer, aloof, lantern-jawed managing editor and onetime Washington correspondent of the Buffalo (N. Y.) evening News, was turning out press releases by the thousand, buttons, sunflowers and windshield stickers by the million. Working boss of Hoover publicity in the 1928 campaign, Press-agent Kirchhofer announced when appointed to his current post: "The usual hokum won't go in this campaign...
...three dolls, total cost of which was only 15 dinars. His Majesty paid with a 20 dinar bill (50?) and Mrs. Simpson said in German, "Keep the change." The King also bought a Yugoslavian fisherman's coarse shirt, put it on and at night went fishing with a lantern for zubach, a species of carp. Around him hovered more than 100 small craft, some of whose occupants were Yugoslavian detectives trying to look like fishermen. Under these trying circumstances, His Majesty did wonders in catching two zubach...
...Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art rounded up all the Blythe pictures it could get, put them on exhibition beside the works of another, long-forgotten Pennsylvanian, Joseph Boggs ("The Professor") Beale, whose lively drawings were lately discovered in the attic of a onetime Philadelphia lantern-slide maker (TIME, Aug. 19). Critics mentioned Brouwer and Hogarth, acclaimed David Blythe as a first-rate U. S. genre painter...