Word: placards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each end are ramps to make it easier for wounded men to climb aboard. Below decks are bunks, cookstoves, canned food, medicines, bandages, checkerboards, paper-covered libraries ranging from Shakespeare to whodunits, wireless telephones to call for aid, framed instructions on how to use the equipment. Says the placard: "Air Sea Rescue Service hopes you will be comfortable and that your stay will be short." Navy launches visit the floats to pick up shipwrecked airmen...
Leaving a San Francisco hotel, the Ambassador was confronted by an elderly woman, dressed in black, carrying a large placard that read: "We remember 1776 and we will defend our Republic." Lord Halifax asked her pleasantly, "You are against aiding England...
...Parliament's court jester, A. P. Herbert: "One day it may be these islands will shake to an unprecedented thud as Reich Marshal Göring-a parachute at each corner-settles on and perhaps submerges the Isle of Wight or Skye." > A London newsie chalked on his placard "Extra! Return of Loch Ness Monster." > Other professional and amateur British humorists punned at length. Examples: Mein Dekampf, Your Hess is as good as mine, Hess Sir, That's My Baby, Trojan Hess, Hessteria...
...costly lend-lease supplies are going to the bottom of the Atlantic." This is obviously based on a rumor quite common now--one neither confirmed nor denied by the administration--which states that 40 per cent of American aid has been sunk. This was the basis for the interventionist placard carried before the peace meeting of a few weeks ago stating that "Convoys Mean Victory." What the bearer of this placard meant was that convoys mean war and war means some kind of victory--maybe...
Outwardly, men in Great Britain were defiant; the questions were deep inside them. "Christmas," said a placard in downtown London, "is 1,940 years old and Hitler is only 51. He can't spoil our Christmas." If shops escaped bombings, they advertised: "Open As Usual." A tea shop which had been hit and lost its front wall announced "More Open than Usual...