Word: bannering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Everybody had the idea by now. Whooping and howling, the Middie cheering section hoisted a banner large enough to be read by the Cadet corps across the field. In exultant paraphrase of the title of a current movie, The West Point Story, the banner read: NOW PLAYING-THE ANNAPOLIS STORY...
...Nashville, a convention of 90 Methodist church leaders took time out to denounce the campaign as "a new low" in advertising. Asked one embattled parent in the Nashville Banner: "Should I . . . go into debt ... in order that my children can see highlights of football, an ancient fourth-rate movie followed by a full program of wrestling...
First, the audience got to its feet for a robust Star-Spangled Banner and a dignified God Save the King. Then, for two hours, the music lovers watched Sir Thomas, one of the most graphic conductors of them all, play his perfectly disciplined orchestra like an organ. They heard great music played to the hilt with an unmistakably British accent...
From the moment when Sir Thomas strode slowly out to the podium to conduct the Star Spangled Banner and God Save the King until he finished conducting his encore he held the almost ell-out audience in breathless suspense with the excellence of his music...
Well, he thought, I do enjoy walking down to the Stadium each Saturday, with the band playing in the distance, and the cries of the banner vendors in the air. And the feeling of uplift when the team scores a touchdown...