Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conceited," writes Flagg, "I am a vain creature." Whatever he means by the distinction, he has some excuse for vanity. He sold his first drawing (to St. Nicholas magazine) when he was twelve, went on to earn as much as $75,000 a year from his illustrations and posters. His famed "I Want You" poster of Uncle Sam pointing a fiercely demanding finger took millions of civilian eyes in World War I. The sulky-looking, full-bosomed Ideal Woman that he created and developed was seen in all the slick magazines in the flat-chested twenties...
...weeks ago a huge billboard covered with propaganda posters of the Soviet-backed Socialist Unity Party (SED) attracted unusual attention in the heart of bomb-shattered Dresden in the Russian zone. Plastered squarely in the center of the billboard was a red poster bearing the slogan: "Wir haben kein Papier, aber wir sind auch hier" (We have no paper, but we are also here). The poster was signed by the anti-Communist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Firemen soon tore down the poster, but thousands of Dresdeners had enjoyed a good chuckle...
Fifty-nine years ago, a Paris art student wrote excitedly to his parents: "I'm earning my own living!" He had just sold a poster for a champagne ad. Since then critics have called Pierre Bonnard everything from "insistently disagreeable" to "the greatest living painter." Last week in Paris Pierre Bonnard was having his greatest triumph...
Angel's Bed. The week's mounting tension augured ill for General George C. Marshall's mission of peace. When he went to Kuling for a short visit with Chiang he saw on Kuling's main street a large poster-portrait of himself, subscribed: "Welcome General Marshall, Most Honored Angel of Peace." That night in Chiang's guest cottage, General Marshall slept in a bed seven feet long and five feet wide. The Kuling correspondent of Ta Rung Pao, Shanghai's independent newspaper, reported this fact to his readers, then asked...
...France, M.R.P. plastered the walls of cities and villages with 100,000 posters (printed in red) and entitled Murder of an M.R.P. Candidate. The poster asks "Where is this [Communist] freedom we have been hearing so much about...