Word: placards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mild case of "crisis stomach" worrying about bombing and gassing, about Mr. Chamberlain and what would happen after the war. But through it all ran a thin wire of pluck, which showed itself best in humor. Those were the days when a West End druggist put a placard in his window: "Bismuth as usual during altercations...
Sign of the G. Mystified was Reporter Racusin by an enigmatic white placard bearing the letter G which hung at intervals from a window in Dr. Westrick's house. Early-morning editions of the Herald Tribune that day ran a picture of the house (see cut) with a white circle around the placard and a close-up showing the G enlarged. In later editions the close-up disappeared (along with Newsman Racusin's references to it), but the circle remained. In final editions the circle too was gone...
Mayor Kelly was ordered to set the stage. As a veteran Chicago politician. Boss Ed had his own ideas about "spontaneous" demonstrations. Leaving nothing to chance, he ordered "the works." Plan was to bring in hundreds of placard-staves, to distribute hundreds of noisemakers (whistles, bells) to the galleries; one sitting band, one marching band and the pipe organ would contribute to the spontaneous ovation. To clinch matters, the loudest man in Chicago politics, Superintendent of Sewers Tom Garry (see p. 14), was stationed at the public-address system to give out with lots of voice...
Last month the Japanese Army announced that it had attained its objectives in South China, and withdrew to garrison at Nanning. When the soldiers left their northernmost outpost in Pinyang, they left behind a curious placard. Last week a picture of a Japanese soldier hanging this message under the shelled gateway to the Pinyang County Government buildings reached the U. S. The notice was written in miserable Chinese, but was polite as an invitation to tea under the cherry trees. Literal but less illiterate translation...
...place in Londonderry Jail in Northern Ireland. There, 45 imprisoned Irishmen closed their section of the prison and proceeded to set their bedding afire and smash the furniture. A crowd soon gathered outside, while the men inside sang Irish Republican songs, shouted Republican slogans and displayed Republican flags and placards out of the windows. One placard read: "England is the champion of freedom. Is this freedom...