Word: posters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre, M. I'Admimstrateur is right next to the Spanish cinema," said he. "Between us is an unused courtyard. Every night when the theatre is closed I take the poster boards down from in front of the theatre and store them in this courtyard. This Spanish type, he does the same thing with his posters. Very well, morning after morning I have found the French posters torn to shreds, the Spanish posters untouched...
Within a few hours the story of the poster-eating Spanish goats was all over Tangier. Feeling was higher than ever, rumors were thick: The goatherd was a Spanish spy. . . . The goats were Spanish spies. . . . They were trained to eat nothing but French posters. More cautiously Administrator Alberge continued his investigations. Dramatically he announced the solution. It was not the posters but the paste with which they were posted that attracted the goats. The Spanish paste was bitter, unpalatable. The French paste smelt and tasted of honey. The French cinema proprietor added a few drops of oil of bitter almonds...
...driver, whose stand is at the subway island in the middle of the Square, told the representative of the CRIMSON the story of the arrest as he had seen it. "Cohen," he said, "was giving out the posters, with a crowd of people around him. He was standing by the traffic box when I saw him, and once he offered a poster to the cop in the box." It has since been determined that Kelly is the name of the officer who was then directing traffic...
Fable-famed is the lesson that one stick can be easily broken while a bundle of sticks defies the strongest giant. Every high school student is told that the word "religion" is derived from the Latin "re" and "ligo," meaning "to bind together." Last week a poster with an illustration of a British chieftain explaining the stick lesson to tribesmen, and with text expounding its application to religion, won the first prize of $1,000 in a "Why Go to Church?" contest. Sponsor of the competition was the "Church Group" of members of the New York Advertising Club, voluntarily offering...
...regard to the question you ask as to the John Sargent's War pictures in the Harvard Library, my recollection is that they are in a style and in a vehicle rather more suited to the magazine cover and to the poster than to a university library. And as to their sentiment,--perhaps they do recall the fierce antagonism of the great war. Nevertheless I do not favor removing them. The habit of pulling down monuments has in it something of the childish. Why not let the decorations stand for what they are worth and for the epoch they record...