Word: photographable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crawford Burton, the so-called and self-styled gentleman rider has finally won damages for the photograph of him that they published and that embarrassed him so much. Mr. Burton got it both coming and going, after he had sold his manly body, clad in his brilliant silks, to the Camel cigarette people for the pittance...
...need saints who live in our own day, who are subjects of our own nation, who are members of our own parishes. Someone whose house we can point out and whose photograph we can show. Why shouldn't this city, this parish, give the world a saint? Why shouldn't there be some day a St. Michael of New York, St. John of The Bronx or St. Mary of Jersey City, just as there is St. Rose of Lima, St. Anthony of Padua and St. Francis of Assisi? . . . Pray for our first native American saint...
...dandy and his feather-boaed wife. A tandem bicycle with a boomer girl in front, a Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole as Sappho, Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks, Maude Adams as L'Aiglon. First editions of When Knighthood Was in Flower and an autographed photograph of John Philip Sousa...
...blowing up like the fragments of an explosive shell have come mainly from Mount Wilson Observatory's brilliant Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble. Beginning in 1928, Hubble and his coworker, Milton LaSalle Humason, showed that the light from the most distant nebulae (clouds of stars) which he could photograph in Mount Wilson's giant telescope was shifted far toward the red end of the spectrum. Such a redshift is observed in the light of a star known to be retreating from Earth, so it was assumed that the distant nebulae were retreating in all directions. On these observations...
...shadowgraphs probed beneath the surface of a sentimental and flat painting of a "Madonna and Child" attributed to the 15th century Italian, Antonazzo Romano, and discovered underneath it a much more forceful painting. When an accurate copy has been made of the outer painting, or when a colour photograph has been taken, the Fogg technical staff plans to clean off the outer layers of paint and reveal the original and more important work...