Word: postered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legion of Decency provides no official guide to good and bad films. But individual priests and bishops may blacklist as they please. Fortnight ago in thousands of Catholic churches, schools and colleges appeared a poster written by Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord, Jesuit editor of The Queen's Work in St. Louis. A seasoned crusader, Father Lord was only lately revealed as the author of the famed Code which Presbyterian Will Hays and his producers adopted in 1930. The poster...
Much has been written and more said about that most annoying of the University's pet rules and regulations, devised to poster students in general, land impractical students in particular, that bugaboo of bugaboos, the Science requirement...
...Well, on the Notice Board poster it said, 'Language Examination, etc. . . .NO APPLICATION NECESSARY...
...busy and remunerative career. His father was Town Selectman and prosperous proprietor of the general store, who studied trees and animals with his son, encouraged his early sketches. When that loquacious African explorer, the late Paul Belloni du Chaillu, went to Gardner to lecture* young Harrison Cady decorated his poster in the store window with a fine display of lions, elephants, and gorillas. Explorer du Chaillu was delighted, and at the age of 17 Harrison Cady arrived in New York to be an artist. He had an easy success. He illustrated stories for Harper's Young People...
Soviet celebrations now feature super-life-size poster pictures of Comrade Kaganovich almost as big and almost as numerous as those of Comrade Stalin. On the Politbureau of the Communist Party which rules Russia, Stalin is No. 1, Kaganovich No. 2. When the Five-Year Plan was wallowing among blunders Comrade Kaganovich coined an immortal, all-explanatory slogan, "Why wail over broken eggs when we are making an omelet!" Last week this potent Bolshevik let fly at the regime of a state with which Russia is on diplomatic and officially friendly terms, the Third Reich of Jew-baiting Adolf Hitler...