Word: placards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started; and things now look as though they are hurrying up. Perhaps one of the most insane and pathetic things that has happened occurred last week. You don't have news bills in New York: the generous headlines of your newspapers really take the place of our news placards, and your bawling news boys with their "read all about it" trumpet call, really do announce those headlines to everyone within earshot. Our people just yell vaguely and you can never make out what they are saying, but this particular news placard of the Evening Standard just said "Peace Threat...
...Palisades Amusement Park (Fort Lee, N. J.) police raided "The Human Slave Market," where men & women had been offering themselves in matrimony to the highest bidder. Each "slave" carried a placard (example: "Today's special-a law graduate with...
...class that graduated into the depression, was preceded by three old jallopies, and was clad in white dusters, caps, and driving goggles, while '33 was rigged out on masse as "fairies," with dunce caps, balloons, wings and a placard that characterized it as "The Grover Boys...
Approximately two-thirds of the class voted in the surprise referendum, which was heralded only by a placard in the Union last night and announcements in this morning's CRIMSON. Twenty ballots were invalidated since they were unsigned...
...poster appeared on the bulletin boards Tuesday, which made a vicious attack on outstanding Harvard professors and implied crude anti-semitism, with attempted similarity to the cheap vaudeville of DER STUERMER. Those who have seen the reproductions in a recent issue of LIFE magazine will recognize in this placard a poor exhibition of intolerance and bigotry which is characteristic of all fascist literature in this country. By making illegal use of the bulletin boards for an unsigned poster, the authors themselves acknowledge that Harvard rejects such ill-mannered action...