Sentence:  As a youngster in The Bronx in the early 1930s, I would occasionally take my windfall of a few pennies to the local candy store and buy a strip of <WSD>cockamamies</WSD>, 'comic-style cartoons in brilliant colors, each about an inch by an inch and a half, transferable to forearm or forehead by wetting', preferably with saliva to make things agreeably messy. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface.