Word: pics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home. Artist Ward painted the background of reverie on a sheet of kitchen oilcloth and then, with no false ideas of his own son's looks, scoured the neighborhood for a handsome model. The curly-headed subject was inveigled away from a sand-lot baseball game. The pic ture was snapped with the aid of two photoflood bulbs and Artist Ward's favor ite camera, a primitive battered box known as a "Monitor," introduced by Rochester Optical Co. in 1895 and withdrawn from production four years later...
Virtually every editor who blazed away at his confreres cited the Englewood pic-ture-taking episode reported in the New York Times as an example of yellow journalism at its worst. As every alert editor already knew, the pictures were taken by Hearst photographers, printed in Hearst's New York American and tabloid New York Mirror, distributed by Hearst's International News Photos. But for four days not one editor dared to mention that prime fact. Meantime, asked by Reuters News Agency for his opinion of the Lindbergh flight, Publisher Hearst used it for attacks...
...benefit of these who found it expedient to remain in Cambridge. Christmas Dinner was an imposing meal, a tribute to the ingenuity of Roy Westcott and his minione. Starting with cream of mushroom goup, the meal ran the traditional gamut of turkey and ended gloriously with mince pic, pumpkin pic, plum pudding with hard sauce, vanilla ice cream with fudge sauce, small cakes, apples, oranges, grapes, mixed noig, cluster raisins, and cheepe and crackers...
...alert; he recognized the ability and the future value of the French Impressionists - Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir - at a time when only one other man in France, the late Art Dealer George Durand-Ruel, was willing to take a chance on them. Ambroise Vollard bought his first pic ture, a Degas racing scene, for a few francs. Soon he made friends with the artist, became intimate with the entire Impressionist circle. Next step was to give up his practice and open in the Rue Laffitte a tiny art shop that has become a legendary shrine for art students. Dealer Vollard...
...drawing board. When they assumed faintly human attitudes, his guffaw of delight sent them scampering back. Then, singlehanded, with $40. he tried to make an animated cartoon cinema called Steamboat Willie. His brother lent him several hundred dollars more to photo graph it and get to Hollywood. The pic ture did not sell but it got him a studio job. Soon after he invented an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon. Sound came to the cinema and his boss scrapped Oswald and Disney. With $15,000 savings, he and his elder brother went to work on an animated cartoon cinema with sound...