Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painted last summer by Greek Artist Pilides Costa. In an extemporaneous speech of thanks President Hoover declared: "It is difficult for me to express with my natural-I hope natural-modesty that it gives one pleasure to see oneself portrayed in a better fashion than the normal snap photograph. [This picture] may serve as an antidote to some of the current portraits under which I suffer. . . . "This club has stood steadfast. ... Its membership has stood steadfast. . . . After two years of fever and tumult in Washington, I assure you this is a gratifying occasion." That the club had not required...
...advertisements of Manhattan's Sheffield Farms, a division of National Dairy Products Corp., Thomas Alva Edison lent his photograph and wrote: "The Almighty knew His business when He apportioned milk.* He is the best chemist we have...
Meanwhile District Attorney Buron Fitts had an entirely different clue. He showed to Crawford's stenographers the photograph of a tall, athletic young man with a blond mustache. . . . Next day David Harris Clark, former deputy district attorney, candidate for municipal judge (backed by McAfee) in this week's election, walked into the Hall of Justice and surrendered to his recent chief. Wise to the ways of prosecutor and press, he would make no statement. But with the information that Candidate Clark had bought a .38 calibre revolver the day before the killing (and paid for it with...
...offices at No. 195 Broadway, the other in the Bell Telephone Laboratories at No. 463 West St., Manhattan. Anyone trying it out goes into a small pitch dark booth and waits until the image of the person at the other end, the size of a desk-photograph, flickers on a little lens. Voices in telephonic television boom resonantly and recognizably (they are carried over regular telephone wires) but the image on the little screen is uncertain, like a snapshot taken out of focus. Weirdly this snapshot rolls its unfocused eyes and moves its puffy lips. Celebrities who have telephoned their...
Upon newsstands last week appeared a booklet bearing on its cover a photograph of the wrecked plane, and this legend in red and black: 'UNCENSORED TRUTH ABOUT ROCKNE'S STRANGE DEATH! At Last-Inside Story of the Fatal Crash." The booklet merely hints that someone might have tampered with the plane; does not even hint at identity or motive. It was published in Minneapolis by Graphic Arts Corp. which is controlled by Fawcett Publications (Capt. Billy's Whiz-Bang, Jim-Jam-Jems...