Word: shuttered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's When Fall Winds Blow, a portrait of two junky old houses. Reason: Submitted last year under the title Second Stories Are Popular, it was rejected because of a pink nude in one window. Artist Albright had now partly covered the girl with a shutter, painted not on the canvas but on the glass in front...
...traditional ride in the middle of the eleventh century in the English town of Coventry. Her husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, Lord of Coventry, agreed to remit his oppressive taxation on the town if Lady Godiva would ride the streets naked. Ordering all persons within doors behind closed shutters, the Lady mounted a white charger and ambled through, the crooked streets, clothed only in her long hair. But through one shutter peeked an itchy little tailor. Lady Godiva spotted him but before she could reprove him, a greater punishment was meted out. Peeping Tom was stricken blind...
Riggs, enthusiastic over the scientific aspects of his machine, described how the process works. When a revolver inounted on a table is fired, it severs a wire carrying a current, thus tripping a high-power 7500 volt condenser. As the bullet passes the open shutter of an ordinary Kodak, the tremendous electrical discharge causes a spark of approximately 900,000 candlepower to flash for 1-1,000,000 to 1-1,500,00 of a second. It is the inconceivable brevity of the flash and the enormous voltage released suddenly by the condenser that make possible such a high-speed...
...opened their milk bottles early in the morning, stole the cream, left skimmed milk. Garageman Kenneth Short set out to catch the culprit in a camera trap. Having read in LIFE, Jan. 18, of a similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief-a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed the thief, helped him skim the cream after he jimmied...
...driver, stopping the truck close to the guardrail on the span about two thirds the distance to Yerba Buena Island. "We're three minutes late." In an auto on the ramp over their heads, a cameraman for the San Francisco Examiner (morning Hearst-paper) was checking his shutter adjustment, squinting at the cloud-scudded sky, gazing with concern at the second launch below the bridge. The man in the helmet stood on the running board, slipped out of his topcoat, stepped quickly over the guard rail, facing inward at the bridge. He glanced upward to the cameraman above...