Word: layout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Structure. As Sandburg's narrative of war and politics goes on, it gathers such momentum that he can toss in a chapter the length of an ordinary novel, dealing entirely with White House routine, and lose little by it. The look and sound and layout of Washington, the character of battles, the diversity of talk and action over the country emerge as clearly as the central presence of Lincoln, revealed in touches both familiar and unfamiliar (e.g., Emerson's noting that he "showed all his white teeth" when he laughed). On the bitter subject of conscription, North...
WMCA's ardent promotion department photostated two such puff-items, crayoned a big "SCOOP!" across the layout, ran it as an ad in the trade press. Week later from the Federal Communications Commission (James Lawrence Fly, chairman) came a curt order to WMCA to show cause, within 72 hours, why its license should not be revoked...
...outside Napoleon's tomb. There are concrete gun platforms on the wooded Meudon and St. Cloud hills where Americans have their villas and restaurants serve cool drinks to heat-weary Parisians. On Mont Valérien, westward across the Seine from the Bois de Boulogne, is an impressive layout of long-barreled guns and searchlights with independent generators. Large railroad station signs, a give-away to low-flying raiders, have been removed. Every Frenchman in Paris has his gas mask, and he is subject to fine if he uses its metal container to carry his fishing tackle. Seven...
...Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, sound trucks, radio speakers and an airplane sign-trailer all shouted the news of the Transcript's "Newscope Edition." Two days later, when the Newscope Edition appeared, Beacon Street saw, instead of the Transcript's dowdy old front page, a bold, five-column layout, of which nearly two columns were pictures. The text frankly aped TIME'S news treatment...
...layout of the color reproductions of his various periods lends weight to a theory of mine: that artists lean to abstract painting when war is in the air. (Picasso's 1914-15 and 1935-36 periods would correspond to the beginning of the World War and to the Civil War in Spain...