Word: postcarded
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...Although you didn't know it, your postcard advertising "Why the Buildog is Losing His grip came to the right place at exactly the right time. If your book is coming out in November, the very height of the football season when Harvard meets Yale, there is an enormous field open. The Harvard Lampoon has a large sale at the Yale game and before the game and during the halftime intermission the contents of the magazine, ads and all, are eagerly devoured by enthusiastic football fans. An ad extolling your book would create a sensation which could be equalled only...
...weather. Bales of Hiroshige's prints found their way to Europe, did as much as anything to spark modern painting. Manet, Degas, Lautrec and Van Gogh all learned from Ukiyo-e art. But after Hiroshige's death in 1858, the art itself descended permanently to a postcard level...
...then left without handing in a blue-book. When University officials called him in several days later, demanding to know where the missing examination was, he indignantly replied that he certainly had handed it in and suggested that a proctor must have misplaced it. He even presented a postmarked postcard as evidence that he had actually handed in a book. There seemed nothing for the University to do but grant him a make-up test--nothing, that is, until someone happened to glance at the postmark again. The card had been mailed three hours before the examination began...
...wish I could always say yes." He jotted a note instructing the federal Cancer Institute to arrange a visit to the U.S. for Lucilla. "You will be well, my child," he said. "You will see a beautiful country, and maybe you'll marry an American. Send me a postcard from time to time." Hope gleamed in Lucilla's eyes...
...Yugoslavia's picture-postcard resort of Bled, in a villa once built for the royal family of Yugoslavia, Communist Tito last week signed a 20-year "treaty of alliance, political cooperation and mutual assistance" with Greece and Turkey. Just six years ago, Tito's Yugoslavia was arming Red guerrillas fighting in Greece; a generation ago, Greeks and Turks were deep in a bloody war with one another. The new alliance joined together three nations with more than a million soldiers under arms: Turkey, 450,000; Yugoslavia, up to 600,000; Greece...