Word: photograph
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plushier Victorian parlors, the stereoscope had been a favorite gadget. Viewed through its wooden lorgnette-style holder, special, double photographs looked solidly three-dimensional, and entertained the young & old on dull Sunday afternoons. Last week the Navy announced that it was perfecting an improvement: a single photograph which appears three-dimensional without benefit of "viewer...
...policies. In 1935 Ahmed Emin took up where he had left off. During the war, Vatan was one of the few journals in Turkey which strongly supported the Allied cause. Again it was throttled for long periods for its attacks on Government policies-and once for publishing a still photograph from Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which had been banned by the Turkish Government. Ahmed Emin long fought Turkey's single-party system. In the past year a weak anti-Government party has been established, but Ahmed Emin refuses to become its candidate-it might interfere with...
...husband (the late President's scatter-quote son) last week paid Joseph Stalin a birthday (his 67th) visit in the Kremlin. Faye and Elliott reported that their host, who had been ailing at Sochi in the Caucasus, looked very well, as indeed he did in a highly retouched photograph (see cut) issued by Sovfoto, the official Soviet photo service. If Stalin imparted any immortal confidences and earth-shaking forecasts, Elliott hasn't revealed them...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor & their clothes went dancing in the ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, achieved the classiest photograph of their visit so far-he in white tie & tails and a boyish grin, she in a rustly formal with a sort of dorsal...
...Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, drew a distressed tut from the British trade paper, Tailor and Cutter, which ran two pictures of him. "Take the picture above," wrote the editor. "Quite nice. The stripes run parallel to the edge of the lapel. . . . Now look at the larger photograph. Oh! ... the trousers are too short. . . . The over coat is not a very pleasant sight. . . . And why is[he] so careless with his buttons and flaps?" Muttered Tailor and Cutter: ";We are very disappointed in Mr. Herbert Morrison ... he is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...