Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called for material on Botticelli's Abundance in the British Museum and the portrait of Alessandro del Borro in Berlin. The telautograph squiggled and in a few minutes stack girls emerged with two folders. Critic Cortissoz' little goatee waggled with pleasure to find attached to an excellent photograph of the Botticelli drawing the date, a list of all the reproductions that have ever been published, all previous owners, all exhibitions at which the original has been shown, along with descriptive passages from text books. The Borro portrait has been variously ascribed to Velasquez, Bernini, Carre...
...sermonizer, not inclined to denounce the frivolities of Manhattan socialites who give money to his Cathedral of St. John the Divine. More of a pulpit moralist is the Bishop's right-hand man, the Very Rev. Milo Hudson Gates. Last week the chubby-cheeked Dean beheld a newspaper photograph of eight Manhattan girls practicing shaking cocktails for a benefit. Last Sunday at a special Cathedral service for the Colonial Dames of America, Dean Gates told of these "quite charming debutantes, with a background of gin and whiskey bottles and the foreground of a bar-all proudly holding up cocktail...
Switches clicked, the lathe-like machines began to hum. Seventeen minutes later in each of the 24 offices an operator opened the machine, withdrew a large cylinder, rushed it to a dark room. Another few minutes and the finished photograph of the wrecked airplane was on editors' desks around a 10,000 mi. circuit. Thus last week Associated Press inaugurated its new $1,000,000-a-year Wirephoto service (TIME...
...elections of the Senior Class Secretary, and of the Class, Class Day, and Photograph Committees, which were postponed before the recess, will be held in the Lodge of the Class of '77 Gate on Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The voting will be by the Australian system...
...friends and relations throughout the land President and Mrs. Roosevelt sent their Christmas Card: a photographic portrait of themselves sitting on a couch beside a White House fireplace. Another portrait of the President was also being distributed last week by the U. S. Government. It was a photograph of the President in profile sitting at his desk, looking into space, pen in hand to sign a paper. Its inscription: "To the pupils and teachers of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt." Copies may be obtained from the Government Printing Office for 10? each, 100 for $7.50. U. S. Commissioner...