Word: postcard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Postcard from Poland
...receive food parcels and letters from families back home [TIME, Nov. 7] ... The post accepted all the food and clothing parcels that my aunt, in Russian-occupied Poland, could send me, but out of 20-odd parcels, numerous letters and communications (asI learned later) I received a single postcard during my 1½year stay at the hard labor camps [in Siberia...
...history. But the most effective pictures in last week's show were those that made no effort to be beautiful and that sacrificed the esoteric for the immediate. Préfète Dufaut's childlike Harbor at Jacmel was as flat, bright and familiar as any postcard, and Wilson Bigaud's self-portrait behind bars had the harshness of a flashbulb photo. Even these, standouts though they were, lacked most of the qualities that critics associate with good painting. Yet, as Poet Rodman suggested in his book, the qualities they did possess were the ones most...
...Lone Ranger, bulging with money and utterly boorish. They discovered that the humble dollars in their wallets represented the solidest value in the world, the item which seemed to be the chief reason for Europe's respect for the U. S. They found themselves the target for postcard salesmen, black marketeers, hotel keepers, and souvenir hawkers all the way from Rotterdam to Barcelona...
...guides had to lower him 1,000 feet on ropes. Then he had to walk two miles to a hotel. On the way, Alpine enthusiast Smiley bought a picture postcard "so as to remember the place...