Word: lampposts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illustrate the problem, the museum relaxed its standing rule against exhibiting anything of bad design, chose for its horrible example a picture of a street corner at 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue, near its own building. On or beneath one overburdened lamppost are six different signs (see cut) telling twelve different messages in ten letter styles and 21 sizes. Aside from the fact that this jumble is artistically jarring, the museum notes also that it all takes too long to read: a minimum of almost a minute...
...Moreau? We had a terrible row. About pacifism . . . He ended up by almost strangling me . . . Here, look at his last letter . . . Just imagine, he pinned me against a lamppost, grabbed me by the throat, while he shouted dramatically, 'I'll have you, Elisabeth, or I'll kill you!' . . . I said to him, 'Strangle me, but don't kiss...
...WILD ANIMALS STAMPEDE. SEE THE MARTYRS THROWN TO THE STARVING LIONS); 3) Sincere ("A dignified, editorial type of ad . . . THIS THEATER is PROUD TO ANNOUNCE . . ."); 4) Pike's Peak or Bust ("Jean Harlow kicked off the new trend . . ."); 5) How Much Is That Girlie 'Gainst the Lamppost? ("Such an illustration tells, without words, that the lady is shady"); 6) Musical Comedy ("Must be illustrated with a smiling, toothy twosome and be liberally peppered with prancing chorus girls and top-hatted dancers. HEAR 14 HIT TUNES must never be omitted...
...through cloudswept valleys to Leon. Just before pulling out, Felice Bonetto, leading on total elapsed time, puffed a cigarette and jauntily observed: "I'll be driving in this race until I die." He died two hours later with a broken neck, when his Lancia skidded into a lamppost in the narrow-laned town of Silao. Italy's Humberto Maglioli, in a Ferrari, roared past Bonetto's body (still strapped to the driver's seat) to take the lap in a record 115.4 m.p.h. On the next lap, the course levels out and straightens, and from Durango...
...whipped the wave of Paulista protest still higher by pointing out that the government had paved streets in new real-estate developments for its speculator friends at a cost of $4,480,000 a mile, of which $4,000,000 was straight graft. "The people wanted a change . . . A lamppost could have been elected," admitted Big Boss Adhemar afterwards...