Word: pasteboards
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...youth. Christian Endeavorers attend weekly devotional and inspirational meetings, do welfare work such as packing bags for soldiers & sailors at Christmas. Philadelphia barkeepers misjudged Christian Endeavor from the beginning last week when they put out placards WELCOME C.E. Many a C.E. delegate walked by such bars wearing a pasteboard badge, WE DRINK MILK. NOT BEER. And Convention Hall janitors had precious few cigaret butts to sweep up after meetings...
...stationery store executive, the trend of the modern valentine brought dismay. He looked at the heaps of vari-colored pasteboard ruefully...
Flimsily built, most of Tokyo and every other Japanese city is so much pasteboard and matchwood, ready to be kindled by incendiary bombs. Fire is the worst part of every Japanese earthquake. Not being able to count on an earthquake, "Klim" Voroshilov has built up one of the great air armadas of the world. According to Britain's ablest writer on war books for civilians, Captain B. H. Liddell Hart: "In case of war with Japan, Voroshilov . . . is said to be favoring the idea of conducting it purely by air action. If so, he will have the credit...
Shamefacedly the regimental commander pulled from his pocket a slightly crumpled pasteboard container. "I am sorry, Your Royal Highness," he apologized, "these are not one of the best brands...
Burrrrzipppp! The clerk touched an electric key, and, exactly like a U. S. movie ticket machine, the tote poked out a ticket for Suada, value of one guinea. Fingering this novel pasteboard, puffing his pale Havana, George V walked back to the Royal Box with Suada's owner, his son-in-law, the spidery-limbed Earl of Harewood, spouse of Princess Mary. In the fourth race Royalty's loping Suada was almost lost among the last of the also-rans, and lost with it was the King's guinea. A genial loser, George V discreetly made known that...