Word: signboards
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...fact is that in individual cases where a signboard containing our advertising was especially offensive to some good friend of ours and we have given up the space, the subsequent advertisement on the board was acknowledged to be very much worse than ours...
...present volume certainly does not surpass the efforts of previous editors, and we note some rather prominent inaccuracies. One is apt to get rather an unfortunate first impression from the cover. Have you ever, in riding along some solitary country road, been confronted by two gaunt posts bearing a signboard with the ominous legend "Look out for the engine." Such is the general appearance of the cover of the Index. Two tropical palm trees support a sign, on which is prominently blazoned the title of the work. Beneath, we are regaled with a view taken from the Nile delta. wherein...
...push it to the ultimate, and I think you will have no difficulty in seeing it." "It is a curious fact," however, that men don't seem to see it. Let a student make a jolly night of it, and on his way home levy a loan on a signboard, and all the patrons of the free lunch counter will demand to be led to the charge. ... While every man has a right to practise total abstinence if he wishes, he has no right to impose it upon another man who is cognizant of his ability to use wine with...
...raid was made the other night on the signboard of the C-o-l-u-m-b-i-a Hotel, and the obnoxious letters painted out. It was, however, semi-successfully cleaned with spirits of turpentine, and now maintains an elevated position and blurred appearance on the roof of the building...