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...spur the workers, to make them ashamed of their clumsiness, the Government has conferred upon Stalingrad in mocking poster form "The Order of the Camel for Lazy Work & Breakage.'' Anyone can see that the camel (see cut) is laughing, hee-hawing, mocking clumsy workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Camel Laugh | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...poster has been on view outside the Dunster House dining-hall, to the effect that tonight at 7.15 o'clock the Stradivarius quartet will give a concert. open to members of the House and their guests. The entertainment committee, through whose efforts the recital has been arranged, has also announced that the experiment of opening the Houses to ladies on given days, proved so successful during the past football season that it will be continued during the winter. Weekend-luncheons may hereafter be attended by ladies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster House Concert | 1/14/1931 | See Source »

Time Out is in receipt of a small poster, about six by ten inches, red in color, with the edges and some of the sides singed off by match fire, which drifted on to his desk from the Middle West the other day. It comes from Ann Arbor, Michigan and tells of a mass meeting and dinner that will be held on November in some building on the Michigan campus. It leads off with "Tomale!--Paprika!--Tabasko!--Red Hot--Every One!" Then proceeds with, "What do you mean? I mean the stunts at the Football Stunt Dinner on Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/18/1930 | See Source »

...whole university seems to be taking the Harvard game extremely seriously. The athletic officials have not scheduled a game for the Saturday previous and the rally of the fourth is evidently going to be one of the biggest that has ever been held in a Big Ten town. The poster also has a score prediction on it which says "Michigan 13, Harvard 6." This is a bit early for prognostications on the Michigan game, but when the time comes Time Out will call in his aide, H. Flung Huey, to decree the score and it will be right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/18/1930 | See Source »

...last week told of a striking portent in connection with Signor Benito Mussolini's fiery speaking tour on which he thundered against the "enemies of Italy" (without mentioning them) at Leghorn, Florence, Milan (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Perhaps with intent to frighten would-be assassins, an astonishing poster was stuck up everywhere. It showed the face of Il Duce in thunder-black silhouette. Circling his face in lightning-like letters were these words: "GOD SENT US THIS MAN! WOE BETIDE HIM WHO HARMS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: God Sent This Man! | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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