Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negro soldiers, entraining for overseas duty, paused to look at the patriotic poster spread across the wall of a railroad terminus. "What You Are Fighting For!" boomed the slogan under a sea of proud, anxious American faces. The Negroes "gave the eye-catching picture a swift glance and then snapped their heads away, almost as if by command." Every face on the poster was white...
...three theories as to who did it: 1) Beaux Arts students; 2) painters whose works were refused by the Salon; 3) fascist youths. Almost certainly the first is correct, for the following reasons: 1) under the menu posted outside the Restaurant des Beaux Arts there appeared a small blue poster reading: Tous les anti-Picassistes: Rendezvous à 4 heures aujourd'hui; 2) all the demonstrators were very young; 3) the careful handling of pictures was much more like art students than like fascist hooligans; 4) a delegation of unidentified students called at the offices of the newspaper...
...loudest drums ever beaten on the once taboo topic of venereal disease were pummeled last week by the War Advertising Council. Launching a new poster campaign with the slogan HIDDEN ENEMY-V.D., the Council appealed to U.S. advertisers to unite in a nationwide drive against syphilis and gonorrhea...
...states, some specific act other than the mailing of these cards is required on the part of the Individual in order to register before voting. Persons from these 12 states, listed on Voting Poster 2, must comply with the special registration procedure to obtain ballots...
Winston Churchill, who wore a yellow Mae West, navy blue overcoat, Trinity House cap, saw two Spitfires down a Nazi bomber, saw himself depicted as an octopus on a Nazi propaganda poster...