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title: Our sorority wasn't very smart to snub her
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-sorority-wasnt-very-smart-to-snub-her-1942/
description: 'Black-and-white newspaper cartoon on a handout sheet: a smiling young woman walks arm in arm with two uniformed Marines while two other women look'
section: Collection
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[![Our sorority wasn't very smart to snub her, 1942 US poster: Black-and-white newspaper cartoon on a handout sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/our-sorority-wasnt-very-smart-to-snub-her-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/our-sorority-wasnt-very-smart-to-snub-her-1942.jpg)

# Our sorority wasn't very smart to snub her

Black-and-white newspaper cartoon on a handout sheet: a smiling young woman walks arm in arm with two uniformed Marines while two other women look on in surprise. The caption has a sorority admit it was unwise to snub her, 'but how were we to know she would turn up with two good-looking brothers in the Marines?'. The technique is faint: the appeal ties the Marine uniform to social standing and admiration.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
OUR SORORITY WASN'T VERY SMART TO SNUB HER,
BUT HOW WERE WE TO KNOW SHE WOULD TURN UP WITH
TWO GOOD-LOOKING BROTHERS IN THE MARINES?
COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.
4-7
[signature: Galbraith]
[imprint: MCPB 99570 4-20-42 250]
```

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