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...practical purposes the only apparent obstacle that prevents the extension of this privilege is the peremptory placard on the wall. In view of the fireproof construction of the building and the constant flare of Bunsen burners the plea that smoking will cause a fire lacks conviction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKING IN MALLINCKRODT | 1/29/1931 | See Source »

...Uriburu's khaki pocket. Within 30 minutes Argentina's "Pink House" was overrun by a merry mob. Portraits of Dr. Irigoyen were hurled from the windows, burned. Two busts of him were dragged forth, one decapitated, the other paraded through the streets in a coffin with the placard: "He's finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Biggest Revolution | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...from bed, dressed hastily in a rusty black European suit. With a few deft snips of a pair of shears he transformed the morning paper into a pile of paper handkerchiefs which he stuffed into one pocket, also pocketing a large hand mirror. Round his neck he hung a placard of a Japanese schoolboy with running nose. In brilliant ideographs down the side ran the legend: THIS PICTURE SHOULD NOT BE A SIGNBOARD FOR JAPAN. BLOW YOUR NOSE. OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE LAUGHED AT BY FOREIGNERS. Humbly Reporter Okuyama followed the nose crusader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Yamagata Trumpeter | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...Next the lockers at the Interlachen Club was a room where players could rest and discuss their scores. The placard over the doorway: "Sobbing Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Interlachen | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and bore a placard: "I am unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Opens | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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