Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knowing how the Chinese revere their dead, I had the caption telling of the 'cadaver' being sent back to the fat factory transposed to the picture showing the German corpses, and had this photograph sent to a Chinese newspaper in Shanghai. . . . Six weeks later 'the horrible boiling down of German soldiers was blazoned to the world, after a letter had been received in England from a reader of the Chinese newspaper...
...Father. Harold Bell Wright composes motion picture literature and sells it by the million copies. He has more competition when his plots reach the screen. There are plenty of people who can think up just as obvious adventures as he can; adventures which will photograph well against a background of the dusty West. This one is about an Irish girl, come all the way to Arizona to find her wandering brother. She finds herself in addition a close shooting, hard riding, handsome husband...
...enabling housewives to cook and bake with the heat from ordinary electric light bulbs; 40 different electric refrigerators; 20 new electric household tools; an endless variety of washing, ironing, cleaning machines; an all-electric barber shop including an electrically-driven safety razor; a "bloodless" or "radio" knife for surgeons; photograph-transmitting radios-in all, devices numbering over 20,000, developed since Benjamin Franklin (fabulously) drew current from the heavens on a kite string...
...addition to its comic strips and editorials, the Chicago Tribune publishes on Sunday, a rotogravure section. Last Sunday, a photograph appeared therein of five people smiling at the cameraman through the glare of a midday sun from a piazza of the Westchester Biltmore Country Club of Rye, N. Y. The Tribune printed four names, from left to right, MacDonald Smith, Miss Maureen Orcutt, Miss Glenna Collett, Walter Hagen. Now behind this foursome of renowned golfers, on a step that made him clearly visible above their heads, stood a gentlemen. His well-brushed hair glistened in the sunlight. He wore...
...Vincent C. Pepe, Manhattan realtor, recently called upon the master of Italy. Good Democrat, Mr. Pepe carried with him an autographed photograph and a letter of greeting from Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York. The Italian Premier looked upon the likeness and asserted: "He looks like a Roman, and he must be a man with a punch." Straightway Mussolini autographed one of his own photographs, wrote a letter in reply, and gave them to Mr. Pepe to take back to that man who "looks like a Roman...