Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attorney General John G. Sargent, declared Artist Albert Rosenthal, is a "great figure to paint. He's a Lincoln type." Mr. Sargent's portrait will be painted at the expense of the U. S., as are portraits of all Presidents, Vice Presidents, Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, Cabinet Officers, Presiding Officers of the Senate and House. Pictures of Associate Justices of the Supreme Court (of which Mr. Rosenthal has 35 to sell, including those of Justices Brewer, Harlan, Brown, McKenna, Peckham, Moody, Holmes, Day) are not paid for by the Government...
...would sound as incongruous for a title as "Bombastes Furioso" sounds today. The evolution of these performances from mock trials and impromptu sketches to elaborately modern and professionally coached musical comedies has a parallel in the change of the American vaudeville from nineteenth century burlesque to the present type of musical extravaganza...
...great change in the type of production came in 1844 when it was decided to abandon the traditional mock trial which had been held yearly from 1795, in favor of a comical sketch. According to the report of J. T. Wheel-wright, who has left an account of this first performance, it was indeed an impromptu affair. The date picked was Friday the thirteenth and 11 Hollis Hall was converted into the stage. A large plank, slightly longer than the room, was bowed so as to serve for the footlights, boots were made of blackened cardboard, wigs and dresses were...
...Salvation Army training school needs missionaries of a stern type, for the job is admittedly difficult. Men with an understanding of the hardships of the bootlegger, and possessing the necessary courage to carry the gospel to dangerous places, should apply at once to the New York office
...Papers of The New York World type): "Chapman had a long criminal record, was dangerously adroit at fleeing justice. We were out to get him. Publicity for the countrywide network of detection that finally caught him at Muncie, Ind., would scare other super-crooks, of which the underworld is full. Hammer, hammer, hammer on that! Besides, our readers like a sensational murder trial now and then, reported ably and with just a trifle less color than the yellow press lays on. We serve the public what it wants in a way we think we can prove is good...