ADVERTISEMENT in Classic Quotes

1  A feed store, its windows opaque with the dust of bran, a patent medicine advertisement painted on its roof.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

2  She looked doubtfully at the impenetrable reality of yawning trolley conductor and sleepy passengers and placards advertising soap and underwear.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

3  It was raised above the floor, and it did have a movable curtain, painted with the advertisement of a druggist dead these ten years, but otherwise it might not have been recognized as a stage.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

4  The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

5  The Commercial Club issued a booklet prepared by a great and expensive literary person from a Minneapolis advertising agency, a red-headed young man who smoked cigarettes in a long amber holder.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

6  He proposed an informal exhibition match to advertise the association; he suggested that Carol and himself, the Haydocks, the Woodfords, and the Dillons play doubles, and that the association be formed from the gathered enthusiasts.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX