Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before embarking on his yachting trip, England's Edward VIII had stopped in Salzburg, snapshot the land marks, heard no music. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was there. So were Steelman Myron Taylor, Music Patron Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Woolworth Donahue, Secretary of Labor Frances Perhins, Singers Ganna Walska and Feodor Chaliapin. Long before the season opened, 11,316 U. S. visitors had made hotel reservations, bought $200,000 worth of concert and opera tickets. Last week with the Salzburg season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade...
...photographer pushed his camera to the ambulance window for a last snapshot. Henry Morgan's face paled with fury, his hands clenched, but he made no move. A Morgan estate guard hit the photographerin the jaw. The ambulance sped away to the rigid privacy of the Morgan estate...
Enclosed herein is a snapshot of a freak sheep that may be termed a "Unicorn." You will note that it has a horn on the end of its nose. This is a three-year-old ewe (female sheep), raised on the range in this district, Ely, Nev. The picture was taken in April 1936 and shows the animal after shearing. It's a freak and not a transplanted horn. Presumed the picture would be of interest to you. D. A. HUGHES...
...death of beloved George V filled the Kingdom's illustrated papers for weeks with every conceivable picture of His late Majesty. Instinctively, out of all the thousands, Englishmen picked one snapshot as their favorite (see cut). Last week began a movement to cast in enduring bronze kindly, paternal King George and the grinning little paint-pot boy who proffered a small, grimy paw to His Majesty in a British shipyard in 1917. "Find that boy!" ordered London editors last week. Soon John Michael Cassidy was found. He turned out to have been in 1917 not the child he looks...
...bloodshot-eyes, malaria and insomnia but in hearty spirits, Fox Movietone's Laurence Stallings bubbled of Ethiopian beauties "too proud to notice a white man," confirmed that at the first sound of an Italian bombing plane Ethiopian officers dive for the nearest Red Cross shelter. A prized Stallings snapshot shows the Ducal Palace of Emperor Haile Selassie's younger son Makonnen at Harar flying the Red Cross flag although not used for any Red Cross purpose...