Word: signboards
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...train by a fuming conductor. Last week the incident was re-enacted with variations. Again a dinky, funnel-stacked, wood-burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Nearby a lean, keen-eyed man stood beaming. He it was who had staged this performance. From afar he had brought the properties-the locomotive, cars and station.* Into the deaf inventor...
...thus, in the natural course of events, Cambridge has become more and more the busy American city, as it has lost, conversely, the atmosphere of a quiet academic center. The boosters are in control, and their little signboard at the Anderson Bridge represents the attitude of the city: bold capitals proclaim industrial growth, manufacturing leadership, Kiwanis and Rotarian meetings; and, in almost shame-faced letters below, Cambridge mentions its educational institutions. The calm that surrounded the nineteenth century giants of Cambridge is gone; and the student of the present must piece out an education as best he can amid...
...Senators-suspect came in. Mr. Smith seemed to lack the confidence which he displays in the print on a large signboard in front of his Illinois country home. He looked grateful for every handshake he got, every conversation" he was let into. Once he missed a handshake and had to fumble his coat button. The Senate is his life ambition ? and his seat was nearest the door...
...placards for this brand of shoe polish or that type of manure spreader. Glaring in huge type, on highly-colored cardboard, these display cards are an eyesore and an insult to the majority of the students who use the library. However "commendable" they may be on the signboard, in the street car, or on the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, they are a shrieking anachronism in a college library...
...That in case the above demand fail of attainment, the Chinese Government should put up the signboard, "Englishmen and dogs not allowed," at various places of historical and scenic interest...