Word: bannerize
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...moment later, Chairman Butler of the Republican National Committee opened the proceedings; the band played The Star Spangled Banner. A prayer was offered; and then Mr. Butler introduced Frank W. Mondell, Chairman of the Notification Committee, onetime Representative from Wyoming and Chairman of the National Convention. He spoke briefly, making the formal notification. Then Mr. Coolidge came forward to make his speech. A fat little man in the front row (name unknown) appointed himself cheerleader and led the applause at appropriate intervals, waving handkerchiefs in both hands. At the close, Secretary Hughes, inspired by the moment to abandon his reserve...
First, the Clarksburg band played The Star Spangled Banner. Then the pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church made an invocation. Then Senator Thomas J. Walsh rose and spoke the momentous words of notification. It was Mr. Davis' moment. He stepped up to the amplifiers and began. At the same moment a heavy rain began to fall, wetting the speaker and the listeners impartially...
After the ceremony the Pragger Wagger (Oxford slang for Prince of Wales) was invited to witness the chief event of the Eisteddfod-the crowning of the prize ode winner, Prosser Rhys of Aberystwith, editor of The Welsh Banner...
...from the obligation to be intelligent lies in the tendency of those unripe in American politics to worship mere independence. I confess that I have found that independence is a bad way to get joint action of any kind in real motion. Usually when two independents rally around the banner of independence it results in two banners of independence and then four and then eight. No man or woman in the world is so independent as an independent. As political workers they are usually fanatically unselfish for six months and then as temperamental as prima donnas forever after...
EXPRESSING WILLIE−Delightfully satiric jabs at the urge to parade one's ego under the banner of Self-Expression...