Word: placards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What Can We Do About This?" screamed a big placard in the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. It meant Los Angeles' own looks and lack of livability...
Climax of this historical build-up was a horrible example: the dismembered body of a comfortable old-fashioned overstuffed easy chair which lay behind the bars of a big animal cage under a life-size photograph of Gorilla Gargantua. Said an accompanying placard: "Cathedra gargantua, genus americanus. Weight when fully matured, 60 pounds. Habitat, the American Home. Devours little children, pencils, small change, fountain pens, bracelets, clips, earrings, scissors, hairpins, and other small flora and fauna of the domestic jungle. Is far from extinct...
...within the city, whose present population is 605,000, is part of bogey-mustachioed Marshal Semion Budenny's Southern Army which retreated there after being chased out of Bessarabia last month. They claim to have killed thousands of Antonescu's Rumanians. Every now & then, they say, a placard reading "Cease Fire and Take Away Your Dead" has to be hoisted...
...procedure was convention-like: registration, handshakes, conferences, cigars. But the atmosphere was far more serious. To many a little businessman, the clinic might easily mean the difference between commercial life & death. Each prime contractor had a table in the hotel ballrooms, a few rickety chairs, a big placard stating his name, the kind of work he could farm out. Soon prime and subcontractors were head-to-head...
...proceeds to restore the feuding hillbillies to their once kindly ways. Pictorially superb, the Technicolored film suffers from its endless moralizing and Cloud-Cuckoo language. Shown at Branson, Mo., in the heart of the Ozarks, it so stirred one native that he picketed the local cinema with a placard: UNFAIR TO LOCAL CHARACTERS...