Word: retouch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though thy portrait I retouch, Respectable señor, I could not love thee, Chum, so much, Loathed I not Stalin more...
...News in 1926 on what he calls a "borrowed shoestring." Boddy was general manager of the Los Angeles Times's book-publishing department, then he heard about the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News. Published by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., it was then (1926) the last word in newspaper daffiness (retouch artists used to put shirts on pictures of hairy-chested wrestlers to meet the Vanderbilt standards of wholesomeness). The News was losing $30,000 a month, ultimately landed in bankruptcy court...
Except to neutralize white scars, the Soviet workshops will not retouch. What time has destroyed is gone...