Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were routine punishments. Purple Heart veterans were deliberately jabbed in their old wounds. There was even a ghastly, sardonic slogan among Lichfield guards: "Shoot a prisoner and be made a sergeant...
...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...
...fictional "composite," the resemblances to George Hill seemed more than coincidental. Like Evans, Mr. Hill is fond of wearing a hat in his office. His alltime Hit Parade favorite is a slam-bang version of Over There (a tune which delighted Mr. Evans). Like Mr. Evans, whose slogan was "Love that Soap," Hill believes in irritating and ear-shattering repetition. Some American Tobacco plugs: "Herbert Tareyton is back-yes, Herbert Tareyton is back!" "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war" and "L.S./M.F.T...
...railroads have taken many a slap from the airlines, and turned the other cheek. Last week at least one road had heard enough of the airline slogan "It's Cheaper...
...Hollywood the Warner Brothers were peeved. Reasons: 1) an unfavorable review of their Cole Porter picture Night & Day in LIFE; 2) a TIME story on Warners' celebration of the talkies' 20th anniversary. Last week the brothers Warner-whose slogan is "combining good citizenship with good picture making"-barred the staffs of both magazines from their studios and their previews...