Word: posterize
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...interesting object was observed a few days since in the freight-yard of the B. & A. R. R. branch in Cambridgeport. A freight-car bore a poster on which the figures '86 appeared in large characters as a heading, while below followed a pronunciamento beginning, "All men are created free and equal - except freshmen," and then giving a set of rules to govern the conduct of such, with decisive intimations as to what they must and must not do. On inquiry of the freight hands it was learned that the car came from Syracuse, N. Y., where there exists...
...Yale News gives vent to its exultation over the result in a gorgeous supplement, after the style of a theatre poster, printed in pale blue, containing the names of the Yale team and her records for the year...
While speaking of this, it may be worth while to remind the Secretaries of the various associations and societies, who are in the habit of posting bills and notices, that any such poster or placard put on trees in the city of Cambridge will be removed by the police. The regulation of the city which forbids the "posting of any bills or notices on any property of the city without permission from the Mayor," though an old one, has not been strictly enforced until this year...
...wrote an editorial on Harvard Indifference, cut down the articles and the poem, and threw the correspondence on janitors into the waste-basket; and yet the paper was full, while the other college editors had to write their papers themselves that week. The next morning there was a poster on the front of University Hall, and great was the sensation in the college...
This company must be intending to leave the legitimate drama for pantomime, for nearly every article turns into something else, - generally into a bed. The fascinating columbine, Modjeska, sits during the daytime on a sofa which, with a wave of her wand, turns into a four-poster, while the noted harlequin, Manager H. H. Sargent, with a blow of his sword, turns some one of his numerous nickel-plated conveniences into a trundle...