Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...derivation, it cannot properly possess. Any student of elementary Greek appreciates that this word signifies "born from light" or "arising as a result of light." It cannot be considered that it conveys the idea, as TIME'S editors wish, that a subject shows to good advantage in a photograph, or "takes a good picture...
Should TIME desire a word to fill an apparent void in the language, a word with which to indicate a peculiar adaptability for being able to appear to advantage in a photograph, I would suggest a new departure in linguistic concoctions: euiconogenic. . . . Here in euiconogenic, then, TIME will find a word which plainly conveys but one meaning: "producing a likeness well...
...businessmen, like the New Deal, began to sing a different tune. ¶ In Boston, where she went to visit her son John, convalescing after the removal of four wisdom teeth, Mrs. Roosevelt said to a group of cameramen: "I should think you'd get tired of taking my photograph." Said a rude photographer: "We do." ¶ Later in the week, in her column My Day, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote: "I ... drove over ... to talk for a few minutes with the Prime Minister of Norway, the Norwegian Minister and his wife. They were lunching with the President. . . ." Mrs. Roosevelt would have...
...authenticity is 100% established. So hard did young Mr. McIlhenny plug at this task of curatorial scholarship that his exhibition is by way of being a landmark in the scientific treatment of art. On the cover of the Daumier catalogue is no lithograph or painting but an X-ray photograph. The X-ray shows a section of the wood panel on which Daumier painted La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress), a celebrated work lent by the Louvre and insured for 3,000,000 francs...
...novelized biography of Henry Ford, The Flivver King contains no startling new facts, presents several little-known, lively anecdotes. Sample: When Automan Ford was in the midst of his Jew-baiting campaign, he selected Cineman William Fox as a victim. Cineman Fox promptly ordered his innumerable, widespread newsreel photographers to photograph all wrecks in which Ford autos were involved, record the grisly details, get from experts affidavits stating that Ford defects were responsible for the accidents. The best of hundreds received were to go into newsreels every week. Automan Ford promptly agreed to stop baiting Jews...