Word: posing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pride-pointing Republican editors gave Nominee Hoover credit for something new in politics. But, as a matter of fact-_. A few days before the Hoover-Baby incident, Nominee Smith had been asked by press photographers at Albany to pose in the act of laying bricks. Nominee Smith refused and said: "I can't lay bricks, and any bricklayer that saw it would know I couldn't. That's a baloney* picture and I'm not going to stand for any baloney pictures in this campaign...
...weeks priorto both the Hoover-Baby and Smith-Baloney incidents, Nominee Curtis (Republican) was approached in Providence, R. I., where he was resting and yachting, and asked to pose for press cameras in the act of dirt-farming. Nominee Curtis' reply was: "You've got to take me as I am. I'm not farming" (TIME, July...
News photographers begged Nominee Curtis to pose for them in the act of farming. Honest, he retorted: "You've got to take me as I am. I'm not farming...
...been caused by some short circuit, he had returned to complete his interrupted robbery. Yet this time again Charles Callan was disturbed. A policeman took him by the shoulder and hustled him to court. Here Charles Callan was confronted by a snapshot of himself showing him in a characteristic pose. In a moment Charles Callan recognized St. Joseph's poor box and his own face peering into it. "Whar did you git that there?" he asked the judge who made no reply but sentenced the thief to jail...
...Kerensky quotes a Latvian citizen, M. Vladimir Brunowsky, who has deposed that on May 10, 1923, in Moscow, he was approached by Comrade Unschlicht, a responsible official of the G. P. U. or Secret Police, and offered a round sum to pose as a spy employed by Great Britain and Norway. He was assured that, after being publicly tried, convicted and sentenced to death, he would be secretly set free. Meanwhile the Soviet State would have proved that it was menaced by Capitalist Spies...