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Variety, The Billboard, The Clipper, Zit's Weekly-the average citizen not in " the profession" who stumbles upon one or more of these stumbles at once into a new and diverting world. A world where the verb " to wow" means unqualified success, where " sisters " are seldom if ever related, where a " tab " is not what old Mr. Webster said it was, but a tabloid musical show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Sisters Wow in Tab | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

...Concert Mayol, a Paris music hall, advertises a piece called Oh,Quel Nul For the benefit of Americans and Englishmen, the following free translation is inserted on the billboard: Ladies Shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mar. 3, 1923 | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...painters under the eaves of Massachusetts Hall? We have stood across the street during the last two weeks in open mouthed astonishment at the power of the artist's brush. First came the shock of realizing that between the two little attic windows of Massachusetts there was a large billboard-like space. A few days later the face of a clock in gold began to appear. Yet a few days, and the whole business was submerged under a flood of bright blue paint; and now we see two clock hands and the numerals ten to one in orange. What goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT GOES ON? | 12/20/1921 | See Source »

Bernice Veazey Brown, Radcliffe 1916, of Providence, R. I., won for the second successive year the William H. Baldwin Prize of $100 for the best essay on "Efficient Billboard Legislation." This is the first time since the prize has been competed for under the present rules that the same person has won it more than once. The prize was offered by the National Municipal League to all undergraduate students registered in any college or university in the United States offering direct instruction in municipal government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Essay Prize to Miss Brown Again | 6/9/1916 | See Source »

...Conference on Municipal Government. "Efficient Billboard Regulation," by Mr. Phillips Bradley. Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Calendar | 3/25/1916 | See Source »

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