Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with characteristic modesty, was reluctant. "I have always shunned publicity," I said. "And I will continue to do so. But in answer to the hundreds, I could as truthfully say thousands, of scented letters asking for my photograph, I will allow you to print, on an inside page, of course, this likeness of me, which my admirers consider very good." And I gave him, the picture which you see above, not without some trepidation, for I have no desire to contribute to feminine heart break, and I realize that I am handsome. But I consider that as nothing...
...photograph of a wall-eyed youngster with protruding ears, a puckered mouth, and neither shirt nor collar on his thick wrinkled neck appeared on the front page of a famed daily last week under the caption "YOUTH SUPREME." The youth in question, one Jack Sharkey, had just demonstrated in a bloody bout in Brooklyn his supremacy against black Harry Wills, once known as "The Brown Panther," and long the Nemesis of Jack Dempsey. All through the fight Sharkey chopped and hacked at Wills, closed his eye, made his mouth bleed; all through the fight the referee skipped between...
...know, for example, that the first photograph ever taken of cannibals partaking of human flesh was secured with the aid of a flashlight camera by Mr. Martin Johnson only two years ago. I inclose a copy...
...London, Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, surgeon, authority on intestinal disorders (TIME, Dec. 7), found his photograph printed on 40,000 menus of Lyons restaurants.* The printing was done without his knowledge. He needs no such publicity. Nor does such publicity injure his reputation, nor curtail his skill. None the less, the British Medical Association denounced him, even though he had resigned from it a year ago because of professional criticism of his disease prevention work.† At this time Sir William simply folded his hands and declared: "In England, if any one writes to the newspapers and signs his name...
Composer Mascagni once had himself photographed with a deck of cards in his ringed hands and a large cigar protruding from a smirk. The waggish, swaggering air of the picture pleased him immensely, and whenever a lady asked him for a likeness this was the one he gave her, signed, in all cases, with love, Pietro Mascagni. It is not difficult to see why he liked this photograph; in it he saw himself for the first time as what he had always wanted to be-a gambler...