Word: flag
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nashville he was greeted by the Tennessean's publisher, cyclonic, pudgy Silliman Evans. In a big, red, open, flag-stuck Buick, they roared off at 60 m.p.h. behind ear-busting police sirens down the Franklin Pike to Mr. Evans' home, a plantation once owned by Andrew Jackson's partner John Overton. There field-hands drew beer in tin cups, sweaty cooks turned roasts over barbecue pits, visitors trampled the fresh young daffodils in the meadow. Mr. Farley spoke, shook hands, praised Cordell Hull, Tennessee, the post office, went indoors to eat a vast spread of fried chicken...
...Warspite's truck when she shouldered into Narvik flew the flag of Vice Admiral William ("Jock") Whitworth, Commander of the Battle Cruiser Squadron, at heart a small-ship man, "the Beatty of this war." He has twin sons, aged 29, in the Navy. Commander of the Destroyer Flotillas is Vice Admiral Ronald H. C. Hallifax whose flagship, the light cruiser Aurora, was air-bombed the same day as Sir Charles's Rodney and with like effect...
...went welcome news; the U. S. State Department had notified belligerents it expected U. S. ships to get safe passage out of the newest segment of the President's combat zone. This week anxious Moore-McCormack heard that Mormacsea had shoved off from Trondheim with her U. S. flag flying...
...country dance on the Magna Charta at the New York World's Fair. Lepidopterists marveled at Curley's maxillae. People began selling Curley balloons, spaghetti, dolls, toys, picture books. The D. A. R. and the American Legion sent Curley a silver-plated twig and a miniature American flag. When a cinema short on Curley was released, during a time of blizzards and rainstorms, Variety headlined: BLIZ AND DRIZ FAIL TO FIZZLE BIZ AS BUG WOWS B. 0. [box office] FROM N. Y. TO L. A. Walt Disney gave $100,000 for Curley. For Curley was a caterpillar, discovered...
...black uniform and the red beret of the Falange, El Caudillo reviewed 15,000 troops marching through the flag-bedecked but still war-scarred streets. Behind the troops marched column after column of Falangists, led by Franco's brother-in-law Ramon Serrano Suñer, chanting their battle song, Face to the Sun. Fighting planes roared overhead. Authoritarian Spain had been told it had much to be happy about. Special editions of Government-controlled newspapers had shown the contrast between Spain of a year ago and Spain of today. Brother-in-law Serrano, who is also Minister...