Word: postered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of "natural scenic beauty spots." Ethical outdoor advertising men are not supposed to use "snipes" (small roadside signs), "daubs" (painted on rocks or fences) or "tackers" (tacked on trees). Furthermore, all good outdoor advertising men deplore the word billboard. They all refer to their medium as "poster panels" or "painted bulletins...
...Hangar" ballroom atop the Hotel LaSalle the billboard men praised their new Traffic Audit Bureau, which does much the same job that the Audit Bureau of Circulation does for publications. And they voted unanimously to retain a ruling laid down in 1915: no hard liquor advertising on poster panels. But as before members may accept such advertising for painted boards, and beer will still be acceptable on both kinds...
...poster cards go up on the green cloth bulletin boards of the Freshman Halls carrying in pleasant words and pretty colors the news of the many competitions which face the undergraduate at Harvard a new and difficult problem is open to the newcomer who is eager to make good and have much about which to write home. To the average Freshman, a University as large as Harvard is a great morass in which to lose oneself ignominiously unless he starts out on the right foot and immediately tries for every competition for which he can force the time. From football...
Stealthy Belgians posted up in major European cities last week this amazing poster, three feet high and adorned with the Belgian tricolor...
...named "settler specialists" whose homes and property have been taken from them and who "specialize" in digging holes to live in. Despite the idealism which decrees brilliant funerals for workers killed by their own stupidity we get a hint that the changes have not yet penetrated for "a huge poster over the piggery, but such fifth inside that been the pigs have died." Certain classes pursue the communist ideal with a fansticism and introspection almost identical to the religious mania of the Inquisition, using the same terms-apostasy, heresy, faith. Others, at the same time, are committing acts of repulsive...