Word: placarding
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...Gone was the 54-by-22-inch The Virtuous Judges (red and blue-cloaked riders backgrounded by crags and castles) and the grey John the Baptist painted on the other side. Because where once hung the panel in the Flemish galleries of the Berlin Museum there was tacked a placard reading, TAKEN FROM GERMANY BY THE VERSAILLES TREATY, the Belgian Press bellowed, "Nazis!" Authorities, however, suspected a crank, hoped to retrieve the painting soon, for so well is it known no man could sell it, only a feudal baron could hang it with safety...
...their leader floated overhead in a red autogiro, 5,000 black & white followers of Negro Cultist Major J. "Father" Divine (TIME, Dec. 25) marched and countermarched across Manhattan's sunny Harlem on their way to Easter worship. At the head of the procession a small girl carried a placard on which was a picture of Divine and the words: HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY. A banner tied to Divine's autogiro answered in red letters: PEACE TO THE WORLD-FATHER DIVINE'S MISSION. Truck-mounted hands moved slowly forward, playing jazz. The marchers sang...
...week's events made a Roman holiday for cartoonists. General Johnson had invited every one with a kick against NRA codes to come to Washington and make it. One cartoonist portrayed the General with swelling bosom standing before the huge and hungry lion of Public Opinion while a placard announced "General Johnson will positively put his head in the Lion's mouth." Another had the General standing back to back with a jackass ("Great American Kicker"), and urging "Go on kick, I dare ya to!" A third had the embattled General surrounded with snowballs, brickbats and dead cats...
...Weiden two brownshirts, relying on their Teutonic consciences, seized a widow, accused her of obtaining larger dole payments than were her due, marched her around Weiden with a placard upon her breast: "I have shamelessly deceived the Ministry of Interior...
...Rebellion; the Annexation of Texas; gold in California; John Brown arming the slaves; John Brown on the gallows; the Ku Klux Klan; Karl Marx-on through riots, strikes, lynchings, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler (with a pansy in his necktie) to a scene of violence and confusion superimposed by a placard: WORKERS UNITE OR THE BLUE EAGLE WILL WEAR A BROWN SHIRT. NRA PAVES THE WAY FOR FASCISM...