Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dear Mrs. Coolidge: We are sending you these flowers because we love you," said a letter signed by 200 children of the Salvation Army Home at Lytton Springs, Calif. The flowers were brought from the coast by airplane and were presented by two Washington children, whom Mrs. Coolidge kissed affectionately...
...This letter was to be released to the newspapers on April 25. But last week the Boston Post and the New York Daily News (tabloid) appeared with unauthorized versions of the letter, so the Atlantic Monthly officially released the letter on April 18. The Atlantic Monthly threatened to sue the Post and the News for gross violation of copyright...
...Senate for only two days in 1922, but no other woman has ever sat there as a member. It is true that other women have reached the age of 91, but how many of them rise at 6 a. m., manage a 600-acre plantation and write letters to newspapers flaying politicians, bankers? Last week in the Atlanta Constitution, alert Georgians noticed a letter from Mrs. Felton. Said she: "As an old widow, lacking only a little more than eight years of the century mark, I thank you for the editorial...
...paint, plotting the outlines of trees, barn and sheep, he made a picture.... From this pastoral beginning he has evolved "telegravure," an invention hailed last week by Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) as "amazing." By its virtue, newspaper pictures can be transmitted in a simple code of numbers and letters and composed like any other text on a linotype. Telegravure is far simpler than telephotography. Telephotography requires costly apparatus to transform pictures into electric impulses, then back to pictures. The transmitted photograph must be engraved. The Ford process starts with a special photographic plate which "screens" the original picture with...
...instant the air was electric. Then Ignace Jan Paderewski sat down at his piano and strummed the golden notes which all the world can but listen to and applaud. Baron Stonehaven, vexed, sat down. Next day His Excellency released to the press a letter to M. Paderewski in which the great Pole was formally rebuked for "insulting His Majesty the King as represented in the person of His Excellency the Governor General...