Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Subscriber Mayberry note well that TIME uses no slang word in its reporting of the news unless there is no synonym in good usage.-ED. Sirs: . . . Personally, I don't see how a man can be accurately described in print, unless some of the things he does, the expressions that he uses, are outlined. . . . There are five people (over 21) besides myself, who read my copy of TIME, and they all agree that TIME is "a - - wow"- (not used with the permission of the copyright owners). Louis NELSON...
...pass a jest with the president. Mr. Hoover's term has not been prolific of this form of humor, but in the legendary days of prosperity, the impassive figure of Mr. Coolidge seemed to tempt the amateur will Rogers continually. The newspaper did not dignify these events with print, but they nevertheless had their evanescent fame. One inspired youth waited for half an hour in the procession in order to confront the outstretched hand of the president with lifted eyebrows and "Beg pardon, I did n't get the name...
Among the most important works which have been offered for the exhibition are a water-color by Rivera, a painting by Matisse, a lithograph by Daumier, a print by Cruikshank, some etchings by Zorn and Heintzelman, a Dutch map of England printed in France in 1573, and a print of the first balloon flight in 1788. There will also be etchings by Rembrandt, Durer, and Van Leyden...
...excuse was a series of anti-Japanese editorials in the Chinese Republican Daily News, and the tousling of five Japanese monks by a gang of coolies. Promptly a group of Japanese naval officers called on the editor in his office in the International Settlement, gave him 24 hours to print an apology "on pain of adopting suitable measures." The monks were avenged by a lone Japanese who attacked a Chinese towel factory single-handed in the middle of the night. He flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon fire engines. When the towels...
...Graphic explained its "composograph" (a famed old Graphic device which had fallen into disuse during Publisher Macfadden's absence) in a subsequent issue: "It is a prison rule that no cameras are allowed in the execution chamber. The Graphic's editors would not wish to print the actual photograph of the execution in any event." But the Graphic's editors did their best to make the full-page picture look as much as possible like a repetition of the Daily News's exploit of printing an actual photograph of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair...