Word: photographable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your March 19 issue on p. 14 you speak of Circuit Judge Allen as having "a cordial handshake and myopic eyes." From the appearance of her eyes in the accompanying photograph, I would suggest that the Judge is hyperopic, not myopic; in other words "farsighted" not "near-sighted...
...Manhattan from a West Indian holiday, Sprinkler Manufacturer William Magraw discovered that his wife, Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, widow of Publisher Edward R. Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: "It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with me for I know...
During the War Jack Dempsey got into trouble by posing as a riveter in a shipyard. The labor manager of Sun Ship-building Co. dressed him in overalls, snapped his picture to use in a campaign to recruit labor. When the public saw the photograph it concluded that Boxer Dempsey had really become a riveter to escape the draft. Last week there was hardly a ripple when another great fisticuffer actually did go into the shipbuilding business. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney was a shipping clerk and went to War with the Marines while Jack Dempsey was posing as a riveter...
...smartest pleaders in Paris, and a M. Pinganaud. Paris papers have hinted for weeks that both know more about the case than anyone in the city. Early in the week police searched Lawyer Pinganaud's apartment, found nothing to incriminate him personally, but did uncover a jolly photograph which showed Swindler Stavisky arm in arm with one of the chief attorneys of the Court of Appeal, named Cazenavette. Lawyer Cazenavette shrilly cried that the picture was taken at a publisher's birthday party and he had no idea who the gentleman he was embracing was. All this...
...come five seconds or five minutes sooner, Death would have cut short an extraordinary career. Daredevil Ridge, 28, has long been willing to risk Death for Science. Three years ago he appeared at a Boston airport, said he wanted to photograph a hotel, hired a cabin plane. In mid-flight the pilot looked back, saw that Ridge had put on a parachute, was ready to jump. He flipped the plane into a wingover that sent the would-be jumper sprawling to the floor, kept him there by repeated wingovers until he got back to port...