Word: placarding
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...Sometime acrobat, magician, horse thief, highwayman, circus-man, poet, sculptor, fomenter of disturbances in the Far East and superb Baron Munchausen." So reads a placard in the New Art Gallery, Madison Avenue, Manhattan, where Merton Clivette, 79, is having his first one-man show of paintings, his first artistic renown at all, but enough of it now to make one of the most amazing stories in the annals of art. Within three days from the opening of his exhibit, 30 paintings had last week been sold, at prices ranging from $200 to $2,000, and famed sculptors Jo Davidson...
...bleated a placard appearing broadcast through New York, Long Island, New Jersey. Other newspapers were not laggard. Sweet Dorothy Dix, writing for the New York Evening Post, and syndicated throughout the U. S., described Charlotte Mills, daughter of the dead singer, as "the quintessence of this hard-boiled age, when girls have no old-fashioned reverence for a mother's purity, but, on the contrary, condone mother's frailty and help her out in her little 'affairs...
...Like Caesar in triumph, Mr. Thompson's august entourage proceeded down a flower-strewn path between 3,500,000 coconut trees over 100 feet high-slowly on, on to Lucena, capital of the province, where eager little Malay schoolgirls dressed all in snowy white, held up an immense placard: "Welcome, Mr. Thompson; we are confident of your sense of justice...
...reported whether the "No climbing" placard was due to the Tibetans' fear of "the hairy men," malignant creatures who they believe once lurked high up on Everest, descending at times on the villages to wreak havoc, steal women and yaks, slaughter men; or whether the lamas, who are so humane that they will not molest lice and other creatures that take refuge on their bodies, could not bear to have any more human lives endangered and sacrificed on that gaunt tooth of Asia that white men are so perplexingly anxious to ascend. On the third and last expedition, which came...
...gathered in angry knots near every cabstand questioning the legality of the order, searching the Police Commissioner's legal right to force citizens to suggest to every comer what they might be. These cabmen, said reports, were pointing out that if every person were compelled to wear a placard proclaiming what he might be, college presidents, holy fathers, merchants, doctors and respected burghers would go about, perforce, with such signs as: HE MAY BE A CLEPTOMANIAC HE MAY BE AN ADULTERER HE MAY BE A POISONER...