Word: placards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gathered in angry knots near every cabstand questioning the legality of the order, searching the Police Commissioner's legal right to force citizens to suggest to every comer what they might be. These cabmen, said reports, were pointing out that if every person were compelled to wear a placard proclaiming what he might be, college presidents, holy fathers, merchants, doctors and respected burghers would go about, perforce, with such signs as: HE MAY BE A CLEPTOMANIAC HE MAY BE AN ADULTERER HE MAY BE A POISONER...
...born, the scene of his early life, his first experiments and his days as a telegraph operator, Mr. Edison removed to Newark, N.J., in 1873; then to Menlo Park, later to Orange, N.J., where his home and large factories now are. Outside "the old man's" office, a placard advises visitors that he is so busy that he finds it "impossible to grant any personal interviews." Within, an absorbed, absentminded, gracious, tireless, cheerful individual carries on his work, with the calm open-mindedness of a scientist, from one day to the next of his 79th year. Well might...
When the Business School moves into its new quarters across the Charles, all unpleasant obligations will be entirely removed. Then it will be the privilege of the business attendants, if they choose, to placard their buildings with purple exhortations to "Boost the Business School!", or to unfurl the banner of the Rotary Club from their flagstaff regularly each Wednesday afternoon...
They led it around on a string and they laughed. The goat walked with an air of injured dignity. On his back, he wore a placard: "William Allen White." The Imperial Klonvocation of the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan was in uproad. This was in Kansas City...
...Girl Scouts, members of the African Orthodox Catholic Church headed by Dean Toote. Every one was suitably attired, from the Legionaries in black and red uniforms with gold lace, to Dean Toote in a purple cassock with a shoulder-sash of white and pale blue carrying a placard: "Independent Church. The Black Jews of the Judea Tribe of Israel, driven out of Judea into Abyssinia by the Gentiles." There were many other placards. One read: "By the science of perpetual motion, the Negro will conquer Africa...