Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Windsor Castle Edward VIII last week inspected the Coldstream Guards. Visiting the barracks he found a Sergeant Jenkins, lately transferred from the Welsh Guards. Sergeant Jenkins was the proud possessor of a photograph of the finish of a regimental foot race which a drummer-boy named Davis was winning, with Edward of Wales running second and Sergeant Jenkins a close third...
...said the King, "and I've got a nasty bone in my leg, too. I say, if you send that photograph to St. James's Palace, I shall be very glad to autograph...
...truant officer busily seizes the occasion for renewed efforts to send Star to an asylum. Captain Nazro cleverly remembers that when Star was washed ashore a photograph album was rescued also, containing portraits of her kin. He writes to them. They appear. Kindly folk, they take Star to live with them in Boston. When she pines for Captain January, they charter a small yacht on which he is captain, Nazro first mate and the tap-dancing villager, the crew...
...Hoan's hero is Abraham Lincoln. There is a bust of him in the living room, as well as a photograph, a statuette and pair of bookends of him in Mr. Hoan's study. Mr. Hoan is built on the Lincoln line-a tall, lanky, restless Midwesterner with a high twangy voice, a shaggy mop of mouse-colored hair, a heavy mustache. He and Mrs. Hoan go to the cinema occasionally, spend a good many evenings playing bridge, usually with the same neighbor couple. Sometimes plump, jolly Mrs. Hoan plays at the Elks Club. She never misses...
Tragic commentary on Negro-baiting carried to one logical conclusion was the gruesome photograph, added to point the exhibit's moral, which showed the lynched and lifeless body of Negro Rubin Stacy of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., suspended from a tree around which stand neatly dressed young white children in snickering, fascinated horror...