Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These displays are undermining the very heart of our civilization. Let us save our boys and girls!" The council voted an ordinance. It affects only billboard advertising, but U. S. cigaret advertisers, remembering the famed Kansas anti-cigaret-advertisement statute, still unrepealed though not enforced, pricked up their ears, wondered if the Colorado crusade would spread. In marked contrast to the Christian Women of Colorado Springs is "a prominent New York society woman," a Mrs. Frank C. Henderson, who last week released pictures of herself smoking a pipe...
...Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. It was conceived and born in prayer." Despite its solvency, Zion City remains unattractive. The houses, except for Overseer Voliva's rococo mansion, are low and cheap. The streets are dusty, with incredibly deep thank-you-ma'ams. A monster billboard warns transients to obey the laws of Zion or begone...
...sophisticated but it is good entertainment. Best song: 'Singing in the Rain.' Prettiest girl: Joan Crawford. Silliest shot: Jack Benny covered with icing from the cake. Best shot: Marie Dressier imitating Marie of Rumania. To publicize the film in Manhattan, a smart manager put up a "human billboard" of flesh-&-blood chorus girls outside the theatre...
...morgue bodies strewed the floor because all the slabs were occupied. A sign painter lettered the names of the victims on a large billboard as they were identified. There were 125 all told, including 17 from the staff of the Clinic. It was the worst catastrophe in Cleveland since 172 schoolchildren were burned to death...
...attention is centred on the dance program, a flow of tainted testimonials begins to poison the air." Young women have already dieted themselves to the very threshold of tuberculosis, yet these "future mothers of the nation" are encouraged to "substitute" cigarets for "wholesome food." Furthermore, American Tobacco Co. "flaunts" billboard posters of an "adolescent girl" smoking cigarets. Says the summing up: "Yes, it's a shocking business indeed to urge cigarets upon the youth of the nation...