Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes of Franco depend on starving women and children. The British Government is going to help him in this! The greatest maritime nation in the world has run up the white flag...
...shirt or a liar. In current footnotes he points out some of his own. He thinks he used to be too noisy boosting the wonders of Emporia and Kansas. He is "ashamed" that he called Bryan "a shallow fellow," and Socialist Eugene V. Debs "a charlatan," blushes over his flag-waving editorials during the Spanish-American and World Wars, would take back if he could an editorial upholding the guilt of Sacco & Vanzetti, "whose execution was a crime for which America lost prestige in the eyes of millions." But he makes no amendment to his early stand among the first...
...discriminating undergraduates out on a holiday an array of pitiably unorganized politicians and women's leagues marked time with hoboes and urchins. Boy Scouts marched better than the National Guard; sound effects went on the bum, and, to cap it all, a local merchant shocked Legionnaires by flying his flag upside down...
Besides the people and the bands and those poor self-conscious, civic-minded unknowns herded between the organized noises are the officials. The expression on the face of Mayor Mansfield, of Boston, when he raised a flag at 8:45 yesterday morning can only be compared to Al Smith's when he laid the cornerstone for the Empire State Building. And even our zealous officials forget to recall, for Governor Hurley was discovered waiting for a parade on the Cambridge Common, while the affair went on somewhere near Harvard Square...
...that have been written of the Northwest's giant forests and mountain scenery Author Binns makes convincing their swelling pride in the beauty of a land where high-speed logging operations had not yet penetrated. Here they counted for something. They were building a new country and a flag was raised every time "an American was about to be born." It was not until George and Alfred were out of high school and helping their father try to clear a farm of 5-ft. tree stumps that they got a taste of the backbreaking side of pioneer life...