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Word: postcard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Rayinski marched into court with his saxophone (in case proof were needed of his talent), a briefcase (stuffed with documents setting forth the legal rights of street musicians) and a big display board on which was tacked a postcard which read: "You are certainly the most extraordinary virtuoso since Paganini ... If you can stop the abominable jazzers' practice of playing the saxophone as con sordino [i.e., muted] and as disorderly as possible, you will be a great benefactor as well as a great player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Virtuoso | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...postcard was signed by a onetime music critic, George Bernard Shaw, who had had a long talk with Rayinski one day after hearing him play outside Shaw's house in Ayot Saint Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Virtuoso | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...urged by its Post Office and Civil Service committee to raise the cost of that American institution, the penny postcard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Decisions Taken | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Those who want to use the service should file their addresses by postcard when they are located at training camps or overseas. P.B.H. plans to send a complete list of other Harvard men in their areas to everyone who files his address...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Keeps Addresses Of College Servicemen | 2/23/1951 | See Source »

Advertising Results. In Louisville, Robert Perry asked $1,525 damages from the Moskins Credit Clothing store: $25 for meals eaten out, plus $1,500 for temporary loss of his wife, who left him after misinterpreting a postcard sales-stunt which read, "Please call WA 1492 and ask for Carolyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 19, 1951 | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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