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Word: photograph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down-to-earth is Playwright Howard's tale of an elderly Italian winegrower in the Napa Valley who courts a San Francisco waitress by mail, palming off his handsome young foreman's photograph as his own; of the girl's disillusionment on seeing him, her going through with the marriage, her transgression with the foreman. It is a triangle story solved by arithmetic, not geometry. The girl most wants a home, the old man a wife, the young man his freedom. So Playwright Howard, without cynicism, urges his bewildered people to be sensible, and quietly laughs melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...will never again photograph plaster casts of Greek statues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young Turk | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...find the most expert sports photographer in the University, Ralph Harris Co., local camera shop, is sponsoring a weekly football photograph contest, to begin with tomorrow's game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RALPH HARRIS CO. TO HOLD PHOTO CONTEST | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

...unwittingly placing Reader Johnson's salty uncle in such a difficult position, TIME apologizes to all hands, fines the news service which supplied a wrongly captioned photograph one tot of grog, herewith prints the picture (and the real Professor Morison) in full. Of TIME'S many boatmen, no small number have made it clear that Capitana is indeed a barkentine and not a ketch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...beside her, humbly dying of tuberculosis. Dr. Ditten performed the operation that saved Emmy's life for the scaffold-she had heard him ask permission to operate, just to keep his hand in. Emmy does not know that when the doctor was a boy he had treasured a photograph of her. When he tells her this, in his cold way, she has a moment of wild hope that he may save her, soon feels like a romantic fool as he goes on to give her a political lecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventures in Nazilcmd | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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