playbills

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  • Auguste could see dated-looking studio photographs, playbills, even an oil painting. —  EQMM,May2008
  • The stage boxes were appropriated to the President and Vice-President, and were each of them decorated with emblems, trophies, etc. At the foot of the playbills were always the words, ' Vivat Respublica .' —  Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2
  • The Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper, which he bought from his former employer, Samuel Keimer. besides the newspaper and almanac, he was a job printer who churned out pamphlets, religious tracts, playbills, tickets, advertisements, legal forms, soap wrappers, election notices, currency, carrier addresses, government documents, book labels, and other ephemeral items. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • The playbills were exactly the same from Broadway to the school version. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Through all his miserable wanderings I tracked him, for he kept playbills, and each bill suggested some quaint or sordid memory. —  The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary
 

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