Word: placarding
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...placard at the left of the stage reads: "Twinkletoes MacDonald will not appear this evening owing to sore feet...
Nazi war veterans in wheel chairs displayed the challenging placard: "German, hast thou voted Ja? If not, our sacrifice was in vain...
...which would seem to recall that "Ei" placard that we chortled over the other day. Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell are proudly responsible. "We are pleased to announce," they blare, "that our popular stews now contain 50 per cent more meat, in addition to many other good vegetables...
Part of most tourists' fun in quaint old Nuremberg is shuddering at the medieval torture instruments in its thick-walled Burg (citadel). Last week Nuremberg Storm Troopers revived a medieval custom. They seized a woman convicted of mistreating her stepchild, drove her through the streets with a placard around her neck reading, "I am a liar and an unnatural mother!" Nurembergers guffawed. Two pictures of the driven woman were printed with approving comments by the local Nazi newsorgan Fränkische Zeitung. The Storm Troopers looked around for another woman to drive in medieval fashion through the streets. They...
...code for upping wages, reducing working hours, increasing purchasing power faster than prices. Thousands of employers signed the agreement quickly, heedlessly, sprinted to the post office to collect their free allotment of "NRA Member-We Do Our Part" advertising material. To each employer was given one large Blue Eagle placard, two small ones, five large square stickers, ten small oval stickers. And thousands of employers anxiously pondered the code, wondering how they could pay their factory help 40? per hour for a 35-hour week or their office help $12 or more per week for a 40-hour week...