Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three easy matches in the Gallia tournament?one in the singles against a little girl named Bendit (6-1, 6-0) and two in the mixed doubles. Jack Hilliard (British) was my partner. Quite attractive, but he wore ugly shoes. The reporters came up. I wouldn't let them photograph me because I had on my oldest sweater and I just told them the truth about it. "Gentlemen," I said, "don't take my photograph today. Wait until Wednesday. I am getting some new French dresses made and they will be delivered Wednesday. I want my California friends...
Home from 75,000 miles of travel up and down Africa, a British missionary brought news. A photograph showed a long, lean, brown-skinned form soaring high in the air, a good 12 in. over a bar which the photographer swore, upon his honor as a missionary, had been set at 6 ft. 6 in. The jumper was a Watusi or member of the highest caste in the African kingdom of Ruanda, a caste in which all the members are between six and seven feet tall. Had the Watusi shown been competing in a recognized track meet, he would have...
Manifestly he does not find his celebrity too inconvenient to have his little joke and bring his name once more before a curious and gossipy public. This is only another indication of his uniqueness. A short time ago his photograph flashed in all the newspapers showing him posed upon a diving board and looking for all the world like a bathing beauty in whiskers. Now he joins the exclusive circle of Wall Street as possessor of his own code signature...
Postman M. Ernest Dole described his invention as follows: "My secrets I will confide only to M. Painlevé. But I have here a photograph of my model in flight. . . . Observe that it has wings. They are used only to stabilize and control it, as it ascends from or returns to the earth. ... It flies not by means of a propeller, but by a device which sucks in the air and then expels it explosively with a force much greater than the 'wind' created by a propeller. . . . Thus there is no 'motor,' no 'engine,' only the device which creates by explosive...
...great service it rendered to the cause of the Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of Man! How absolutely essential it was for you to devote a valuable column of your limited space to an incident that cannot but enhance racial animosity! Not only that-you had to print a photograph of the individual who distinguished himself by violence and vituperation...