Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such artist was known simply as McKay; he was a late-18th-Century itinerant painter whose Mrs. John Bush (see cut) was a clean, crackling portrait presenting the sitter with all the harsh candor of a snapshot. Another was Joseph Badger, Boston's outstanding portraitist from 1748 to 1758 (Copley superseded him). Badger's Mrs. John Edwards (see cut) made no attempt to impress anyone with the subject's elegance. Neither did Henry Gibbs (see cut), probably the work of one of the itinerant artists who traveled the countryside, sometimes carrying portraits prepainted except for faces...
Those informal dinners with the faculty were really a novel idea. Gives you a chance to find out that teachers are humans, too. Remarks about that picture on our desk will please cease. It was raining cold, and besides, that guy couldn't take a good snapshot. No matter what Nielsen tells you, it's not a matter of "doing the best with what he had to work with...
Died. Edward Bausch, 89, famed optical manufacturer (Bausch & Lomb) and inventor; after long illness; in Rochester, N.Y. His iris diaphragm shutter made the snapshot camera practical...
...contest is now open for the submission of your girl friends' picture . . . (a snapshot, prefarably). A whole page of base "Beaveresses" will feature our Yearbook. The winners will be chosen by that well-known connoisseur of femin- ine pulchritude, Professor R. S. Merriam...
...Germans were silent, too, and the trapped men felt that the enemy was closing around them. A lieutenant from Chicago pulled out a snapshot of his girl and said: "There's the thing. If I live to see her again...