1907 sheet music cover of " I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark " featuring singer and male impersonator Hetty King

200px The word " blurb ", meaning a short description of a book, film, or other product written for promotional purposes, was coined by Burgess in 1907, in attributing the cover copy of his book, Are You a Bromide ?, to a Miss Belinda Blurb.

He covered golf for The Times from 1907 to 1953 and for Country Life from 1907 to 1961, the first writer ever to cover golf on a daily basis, instead of as an occasional feature.

J. C. Leyendecker | J. C. Leyendecker's December 28, 1907 cover of The Saturday Evening Post depicting a stork and Baby New Year.

Boosterism: cover of a promotional booklet published in 1907 by the Rock Island railroad

In 1907, he was appointed official painter to Emperor Meiji, who so liked his works that his commission was extended to cover the Imperial Household Agency as a court painter in 1917.

Leyendecker's December 28, 1907 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

By 1907, clothing was increasingly factory-made and often sold in large, fixed price department stores.

In 1907, Smith was famously asked to give an opinion on a proposed defamation action by the Lever Brothers against newspapers owned by Lord Northcliffe concerning allegations of a conspiracy to raise the price of soap by means of a ' soap trust '.

For 1907, most models were gone, and Adams-Farwell offered only an improved Model 7-A Touring, now with an even longer wheelbase and a higher price.

In 1907 – 1908 the company began production of the monstrous 50 / 60 hp six, which offered an engine of 15. 9 litres for a chassis price of £ 950.

1907: In the newspaper's first price war under editor Stanley Reed, the price is cut from 4 annas to 1 anna, and circulation rises 5 times.

The contract to build it was given to John Moffat of Manchester on 27 September 1907, and the contract price was £ 14, 649.

The proportion of the active population in this last sector rose from 18 percent in 1907 to 31 percent in 1935.

The county's population was 17, 227 in 1907 and rose to 17, 960 in 1910.

He was made a Bezirksamtassessor in 1907 and rose to the position of Regierungsassessor by 1917.

Between 1899 and 1907 the number of telephone subscribers in Japan rose from 35, 000 to 95, 000.

During the period of 1907 to 1912 sales rose from 1. 6 million yen to 2 million yen.

In 1907 the Banyoro rose in a rebellion called nyangire, or " refusing ," and succeeded in having the Baganda subimperial agents withdrawn.

He rose through the ranks of the Church, serving as counselor of the episcopal curia of Münich, 1895-1905 ; canon of the cathedral chapter of Münster, 1903-1905 ; vicar general of Münster, October 30, 1905-1911 ; dean of the chapter and vicar capitular, 1910 ; and protonotary apostolic ad instar participantium, December 20, 1907.

Catholics, whose portion of the population rose greatly due to the arrival of factory workers, were allowed to build their own church in 1907, about 400 years after the Reformation and Brugg ’ s subsequent conversion to Protestantism.

Between 1907 and 1914, plumes and clouds of ash frequently rose out of the caldera, and at least a few of these events were explosive.

Between 1860 and 1907, the assessed value of the land and buildings on Manhattan rose from $ 1. 7 billion to $ 6. 7 billion.

On April 15, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an Arbor Day Proclamation to the School Children of the United States about the importance of trees and that forestry deserves to be taught in our schools.

Fay Wray ( born Vina Fay Wray ; September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004 ) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong.

* December 15 – Ethel Lackie, American Olympic swimmer ( b. 1907 )

* January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect ( d. 1907 )

* June 15 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer ( d. 1907 )

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

Cilea's last opera, premièred at La Scala in Milan on 15 April 1907 under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, was the 3-act tragedy Gloria, again with a libretto by Colautti, based on a play by Victorien Sardou.

* Gloria ( 15 April 1907 Teatro alla Scala, Milan ),

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho ( born December 15, 1907 ) is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture.

A symbol of this was the German Cultural Center (), built in 1906 and opened on 15 May 1907, today it is Celje Hall ().

* Sigurd Raschèr ( pronounced ' Rah-sher ') ( 15 May 1907 in Elberfeld, Germany-25 February 2001 in Shushan, New York ) was an American saxophonist of German birth.

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (), Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg ( 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944 ), was a German army officer and aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power.

Soper in his investigation published June 15, 1907, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said he believed soft clams might be the source of the outbreak.

Buchan also read for and was called to the bar in 1901, though he did not practice as a lawyer, and on 15 July 1907 married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor daughter of Norman Grosvenor and a cousin of the Duke of Westminster.

Kollitz also operated the 15 room Estherwood Hotel for a time, but it was closed in 1907.

A post office operated from April 13, 1880, until December 15, 1887, and again from January 24, 1888, until September 30, 1907.

Canaan was the site of a famous train wreck on September 15, 1907.

Rumson was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 15, 1907, from portions of Shrewsbury Township, based on the results of a referendum held on June 18, 1907.

Over the centuries, portions of the township have been taken to form Stafford Township ( March 3, 1750 ), Dover Township ( March 1, 1768, now Toms River Township ), Ocean Township ( February 24, 1849 ), Red Bank ( March 17, 1870 ), Eatontown ( April 4, 1873 ), Rumson ( May 15, 1907 ), Fair Haven ( March 28, 1912 ), Little Silver ( March 19, 1923 ), Shrewsbury borough ( March 22, 1926 ) and New Shrewsbury ( April 15, 1950, now Tinton Falls ).

A post office was established on May 21, 1907 and ran until May 15, 1946.

The city of Mercedes was founded September 15, 1907, by the American Rio Grande Land & Irrigation Company, and was incorporated March 8, 1909.

In March, the Tidewater Railway was formally rechartered by the Virginia State Corporation Commission as " The Virginian Railway Company " and William Nelson Page was elected president on April 15, 1907 at the first new board meeting in Norfolk.