Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since public sentiment seems to favor the many whom Actress Bennett has had occasion to score in the recent press, why not publish the Pogany portrait of this "round shouldered, thick-thighed" champion to give them their real money's worth? If the portrait is as foul as she says it is, the Public will be pleased; if it flatters her, the Public will be certain all this court to-do is just another cheap stunt to get cheaper publicity for her next movie, which is certain to be a flop. One of the Public...
...graphic art as in his best painting, Gauguin accomplished most after he had broken with his family, settled in. the South Seas. Using only the most primitive materials-"any wood I can get hold of," he wrote, "and no press"-he turned out woodcuts that sometimes seem more primitive than the work of natives, studies based on Maori religious psychology, in which the design is clenched around a terrified figure as tightly as a closed fist. He varied work of this character, sultry and mysterious, with woodcuts in which gentler island gods, and relaxed natives are integral to the repose...
...PRESS! (The Tribune...
Rotund Bruce Bliven, editor of the liberal New Republic, told the graduating class of Long Island University: "The American press looks a great deal better to some of its critics than it did a few years ago. This is not primarily because it has improved-although that is the case-but because the press in other parts of the world has become so much worse...
Last week, after ten years of backing and inventing, the partners demonstrated their perfected Semagraph in the Manhattan offices of the Associated Press. Seated at an electrically driven typewriter, a girl clicked out a story. The typewriter's type bars carried coded combinations of dots under each character and the "copy" showed these dots. As each page was completed, Inventor Green lovingly inserted it into a Semagraph transmitter. Simultaneously, in the composing room of the Charlotte Observer 611 miles away, a telegraph printer reproduced the copy exactly. This copy, in turn, was fitted into the slots of a Semagraph...