Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...biggest eye in the world winked open and shut last week, a finished article. It was a long-range camera for the Army air service, with a nine-inch lens (the largest ever ground for a camera) to photograph the earth from an altitude of seven miles or so. Experts of the Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, N. Y.) had fashioned it, providing also a film specially sensitized to record light at the infra-red (long wave, dull light) end of the spectrum, a film taking exposures nine inches square, 100 exposures to a roll. Lieut. George W. Goddard will soon...
...smelly lunchrooms, dirty washrooms, ugly workrooms, hot bedrooms, thousands of young females forgot their troubles in the decadent thrill of examining, preening and comparing lips. When the winner was announced -a Manhattan nymph, of course, "a dainty little married woman... Christine League"-the Mirror published a close-up photograph of her provocative cupid-bow orifice upraised in "the pose in which Christine's hubby says he likes her best." Another offering the Mirror made last week was a discussion of what constitutes true beauty in the female form. The idea the editors tried to get across was that "flat...
...President Wilsons ever was. His type is far less intellectual, broader, heavier in every way; strong?yes?but not so magnificently "horse-jawed . . . lean templed . . . highbrowed." You published an excellent but disrespectful description of Woodrow Wilson, all but the "longish ears," which you must have transplanted from a Bok photograph where they are indeed to be seen. President Wilson's ears were rounded and thin, often noticed them and was infuriated more than once by cartoons. . . . And one more point: you need not have been so sarcastic about Twice Thirty as to (Call it "one of Mr. Bok's autobiographies...
Politics. The delegates scored Governors Smith of New York and Ritchie of Maryland; loudly applauded a speaker who declared that neither could ever be President of the U. S.. . . The entire convention called on President Coolidge* and posed for a photograph with him, which included 5,750 faces...
...pressing of a button caused the platform to collapse. Director Schwarz sent a cameraman to photograph the writhings of the horses, both of which suffered broken legs and ribs as a result of falling upon rocky ground. Several hours later an underling, repentant, stole back and mercifully shot the horses...