Word: postcarder
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...works of the Flemish school, was also unexcelled in Dutch masterpieces and Spanish and German primitives, trailed only the top-ranking U.S. collections in Renaissance Italians. It also contained a masterwork that would have watered the mouths of such Johnson rivals as the late Andrew Mellon: a postcard-sized St. Francis by van Eyck, whose $500,000 valuation makes it the most expensive painting per square inch...
Like story and characters, Dumbo's coloring is soft and subdued, free from picture-postcard colors and confusing detail-a significant technical advance. But the charm of Dumbo is that it again brings to life that almost human animal kingdom where Walter Elias Disney is king of them...
...grey bangs newly barbered, his coat collar fitting as badly as ever, Secretary of War Stimson paced into his press conference with a glint in his usually glintless eye. He had something up his sleeve: a postcard. To 40 correspondents and Army officers, stewing gently in Washington's summer steam heat, he made a couple of routine announcements, then cleared his throat and waited for questions...
...question he was waiting for came: Had Mr. Secretary anything to say on the matter of keeping drafted men under arms longer than a year? Mr. Secretary had, very decidedly. He then played his postcard...
...support of the Nazi Army of Occupation, beginning with a reduction of from 400,000,000 to 300,000,000 francs a day. Generally speaking, the demarcation line would be opened for goods, cash, securities, and for people who wished to attend the sickness or burial of near relatives. Postcard correspondence would be permitted between the Zones. Meanwhile discussions continued between Admiral Darlan and Nazi Envoy Otto Abetz...