Word: poster
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...Story begins with the bold, brusque strokes of a poster: the German quarter of New York about 1890; Anton Zwenge, a violin-mender; his mercurial wife; his manual-laboring friends. Frau Zwenge sells sheet music against her husband's will. With the years this business prospers, dislodges him from his workbench, drives him into a corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants...
...poster is shaded and filled, not teased, into a powerful fresco on the walls of Manhattan and of life. Karl sees Greta again in her daughter. The girl has found her lover, just such a penniless composer as Karl once was. But the older man is prestige, comfort, immediacy and she accepts him. Frau Zwenge applauds, on that practical side as before. The old grandfather is glad, having loved Karl. George Gewurtz is for it, seeking to force an issue he has long suspected: the truth about Karoline's paternity...
...Book. A figure beturbaned with a flowered silk handkerchief, swaddled in layers of woolly night-garments, growls among the bolsters of a four-poster like Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother. Josephine, the grumbling cook and masterful mistress, who dominates the progress of physical events in the Villa Said, draws the blinds and scoffs her master's self-pity for a feverish night. He swallows his chocolate, demolishes brioches. To this mistress, later his wife, Anatole France is a dithering old goat-beard, incapable of putting on his own underdrawers...
...prayer meetings, many of which were held in the principal places of business. In the very room where S. Glenn Young and Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas staged their final and fatal battle hangs from a coat rack on the spot where Young fell a big poster advertising the Williams meetings. And this historical little cigar store, which is known all over the land by the many pictures published of it, opened its doors at noon along with many other places for a noontime prayer meeting...
...theatre in which every other seat was vacant, presumably to accommodate those who were beside themselves with the heat, The Right to Love was presented to a few late-season audiences lured in by a poster which stated: "Mary Barton says-It is the God-given right of every woman to have at least one child without any questions asked." They found that this Mary Barton, who kept an informal hostelry at Falls City, Md., had tested her hypothesis by bearing an illegitimate lad who, being naive as well as natural, supported her contention by never asking who his father...