Word: caption
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Uncle Sham are "The Virgin," "Accidents Will Happen" and "Fairies." Copious material is drawn from Bernarr Macfadden's ill-famed pornoGraphic. Photographs include one showing three U. S. girls in barber chairs with their faces lathered, three barbers standing by with razors upraised. The tongue-in-cheek caption gravely informs the reader that "the Eve of today ... is masculine in her strength . . . goes to the barber and uses the Gillette...
Manhattan papers were prompt in harassing college professors for answers which were quickly printed. An exception was the New York Mirror, gum-chewers sheet, which decided to print the questions and answers under the caption "Ediquests" at the announced rate...
...respectfully refer you to your "Hatched, Matched, Dispatched" caption in Letters Department, TIME...
Sirs: In your edition of May 27, p. 44, under the caption of Golden Jubilee, you omitted to mention the most important glass bulb without which the incandescent lamp would be impossible. The credit for the development of producing these bulbs on the scale required today belongs to the Corning Glass Works, and no small share of it to Ambassador Houghton* and his associates, who had the foresight and imagination to spend a fortune on the development of machines that would blow these bulbs, and on glass research, so that these machines could be worked. The earliest lamp bulbs were...
...time a photograph of the festive scene appeared in Tokyo's English news paper, The Trans-Pacific. Read the caption: "Life in the Central Police Station always assumes a jolly air following any outstanding piece of robber-nabbing...