Word: placarding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...members of the President's Cabinet were going as delegates to speed his renomination. Secretaries of State Stimson and of the Treasury Mills could be spotted under the New York placard. Secretary of War Hurley, aggressive and smiling, would be with his fellow Oklahomans. The Missouri contingent would contain Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, the Virginia delegation Secretary of Labor Doak. But of all the Senators, Congressmen and Cabinet members present none would compare in influence and importance to Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Ohio, President Hoover's pre-convention manager and his personal representative at Chicago...
...Such clothes break definitely with the impractical skirt and with all bourgeois traditions of women's dress," proclaimed a placard. "The Soviet woman must move unhampered and with perfect freedom as she does her work...
...Evenson streaked into the last straightaway three yards behind but Shea had shaved the last turn closer and drew away to win by 5 yd. In the window of the general store at Hanover, where Shea works his way through college by waiting at an eating club, a placard announced his victory. His time-43.4 sec.-equalled the Olympic record. The 5,000-meter race was run off much more slowly in a slight flurry of snow. When Irving Jaffee of New York won, after outmaneuvering the Norwegian champion Ivar Ballangrud, the U. S. team had 29 points, more than...
...Hinks was annoyed by neighbors' chickens eating the flowers in his garden. Chicken-owning neighbors of Mr. Hinks denied their fowl had committed the depredations. Mr. Hinks, ingenious, got many pieces of string, tied one end of each to a kernel of corn and the other end to a placard, left them in his flower garden. One day his astonished neighbors heard their chickens crowing lustily, found hanging from their beaks placards bearing the legend: "I Have Been in Reverend Hinks' Flower Garden...
...village to search for food. Five hundred dollars is a lot of money to a Turkish village. Townsmen turned him over to the authorities. Next day Ismael Husseyin swung from the gallows he had once cheated, his blackened tongue impudently thrust at his captors. On his breast swung a placard: THUS ARE PUNISHED TRAITORS TO THE RE PUBLICAN REGIME OF KEMAL PASHA...