Word: streamers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than I am!" At the Nagoya railroad station, the Princetonians were greeted by employees of Seaweed's big Osawa Trading Co. They waved a streamer proclaiming: "Welcome Princeton, Orange and Black Brothers...
...When the blow fell, the Post was ready with its biggest and blackest streamer. CONANT CONFIRMED BY VOTE OF ONLY 6 SENATORS, 4-2. "The behind the scenes maneuvering, with Senator Saltonstall making an obviously determined fight for immediate confirmation, was as slick as any veteran Capitol observers have witnessed for a long time. . . Saltonstall's face was flushed when he ended his appeal on behalf of Dr. Conant--and Harvard...
Even headline-hardened readers of Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (circ. 305,056) were astonished last week by the seven-column streamer: LINK MARGARET TRUMAN-ADLAI IN ROMANCE...
Another kind of smear comes in a 16-page pamphlet, Headlines and What's Behind Them ("for students, writers and speakers"). A streamer on the front page blares the message: REDS, NEW DEALERS USE IKE IN PLOT TO HOLD POWER. Behind Headlines is pince-nezed Joseph P. Kamp, who edited the Awakener-well-loved by the Nazis-from 1932 until its death in 1936. In 1944 he was cited for contempt of Congress and sentenced (in 1949) to four months in prison. Kamp's touch is far from subtle: he fans anti-Semitic feelings by picturing prominent Jews...
Soon after Taft mounted the rostrum, the droning of an airplane somewhat drowned the remarks of one of the speakers. The plane circled, flaunting a streamer which read: Win with Eisenhower April 29. The crowd was amused, angry, or indifferent, depending on individual political sentiment...