Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quick, its face is covered with a cloth or dissembled with cosmetics. Newspapers have recognized this unwillingness to look up on cadavers, and it has been a journalistic tradition never to print pictures of those killed by violence except for purposes of identification, and then only after the photograph has been retouched. Instead of showing the actual body when reproducing the scene of a murder, a stock phrase was used, " X marks the spot. . . ." How this phrase is vanishing from journalism was deplorably demonstrated last week by two Manhattan gum-chewers' sheets...
...scene for the mysterious first act of the Dramatic Club's Russian comedy "Mr. Paraclete," shown in the above photograph, is the work of Murray Pease '26, who executed last year the scenes designed by Dos Passos for the club's production of "The Moon Is a Gong." The model stage-set, both designed and executed by Pease, will go on display in the hall at the Union on Monday morning...
...that was enough for me .... Soon The Star was started. Shaw was made Art Critic. I suppose it was writing on art that gave him the idea that he was an authority on the subject, but to this day he does not know the difference between a photograph and a painting .... Our Adelphi Terrace windows looked right into Shaw's.... One day Barrie, who then lived under us, wanted to show Shaw to some guests he had to lunch, and he fired a roll from his dining table through the open window on to Shaw's table...
...make matters worse, the photograph was obviously "posed" to the satisfaction of "the Royal Vamp," who is rumored to have impenitently "countenanced" its release by one of his suite...
...This," when inspected, appeared superficially to be only a photograph of a svelt and alluring "redheaded vamp." Alas, her shoulders were a thought too broad, her hips a shade too neat! She was none other than Edward of Wales, snapped en costume while appearing in The Bathroom Door, a farce produced aboard the cruiser Repulse just before she docked at Portsmouth (TIME, Oct. 26) and returned the Prince from his South American tour...