Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph Patterson, stock broker and writer, who returned home last week and got into the headlines with this piquant chitchat: The Rajah: "Where did you come from?" Mr. Patterson: "From America." The Rajah: "Is that further away than Singapore?" Mr. Patterson: "Much further." The Rajah, producing a newspaper photograph of President Coolidge and Queen Marie of Rumania: "I know. I have a picture of your Rajah. Is this his favorite wife?" Mr. Patterson: "Oh no, our great Rajah has only one wife." The Rajah: "How many people are there in your country?" Mr. Patterson: "110,000,000." The Rajah...
...some worthy soul to preach a great moral lesson. Mr. Hearst's New York Daily Mirror, which is only excelled in vulgarity by Mr. Macfadden's Daily Graphic, assumed the lofty mission. Beneath the two-inch headline, ''INDICTED!" the Daily Mirror published a full page photograph of Daughter Snyder supported by a nondescript woman in a fur coat and a man looking more like a pious bootlegger than an undertaker. Daughter Snyder's head was bent-her face completely hidden by her hat and her hand. The caption said: "The Daily Mirror will not print...
There are a number of interesting pictures on exhibition as well as these books. Among these is a photograph of John the Orangeman sitting in his cart, and another is a reproduction in colour of an old engraving, called "A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England," showing Harvard and Massachusetts Halls...
Similarly, in special cases the Committee will add information from the office files to a photograph which has been sent in, and will supplement information with photographs from the Red Book: but in no case will both deficiencies be filled...
...refracting type. The mirror faces the star and, as it is concave, or dish-shaped, the light rays converge after being reflected from it. They are reflected to the side of the instrument by a second, flat mirror, in one type, and are brought to a focus on a photograph plate, or in an eyepiece, if the telescope is being used visually...