Word: photographable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...egregious vanity is that I now weigh 182 Ib. which is exactly 4 Ib. more than I weighed 30 years ago when I played baseball and boxed in the light heavyweight class. Finally, especially if you ever deal with me again, for -'s† sake get a new photograph of me. The Bain News Service, No. 255 Canal Street, New York City took a pretty good one of me when I got back from Europe a couple of months...
...posing grounds behind the White House President Hoover led his Cabinet for its last group photograph. Of its original 1929 members four were missing-War's Good, Treasury's Mellon. Commerce's Lamont, Labor's Davis. The President sat down, hunched up his left shoulder. Vice President Curtis and Secretary of the Treasury Mills swung right leg over left, Secretary of War Hurley, left leg over right. Camera shutters clucked. The Cabinet rarely looked more darkly dignified. Piped a photographer: "Can't you gentlemen please look a little more cheerful this time?" Laughter at such...
...this point Mrs. Wanderwell came forward with the announcement that "a thousand people" might have wanted to kill her swashbuckling husband. She told of his recently fighting with a visitor at their apartment. She said she only knew the man as "Guy" but she produced a photograph of him. Day later police located a Welshman named William James Guy, 24, in a shack in the Los Angeles River bottoms. He admitted he "hated Wanderwell" because the Captain had once left him and his wife "on the beach" in Panama in the course of a Wanderwell tour. He also admitted illegal...
...effective incident in itself. The only stupid touch in the picture comes in the final moment after the tragedy of Catherine's death - when Lieutenant Henry picks up her corpse, looks out of the window at an armistice celebration and loudly remarks: "Peace!" After this comes an unreasonable photograph of flying pigeons...
...debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert S. Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round) ; a radical spectator's impressions of the four Presidential campaign rallies in Madison Square Garden by John Dos Passes; a photograph of society girls feeding sugar to horses in a hotel ballroom, contrasted with one of Chicago relief workers feeding soup to jobless in a basement...