Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...often been wondering, of late, to just what sad end this world is coming. He is by nature a peaceful and optimistic soul, and the machinations of Hitlers and Mussolinis on the other side of the Atlantic at times fill him with a real uneasiness. He views the flag-waving Nationalist and his works with alarm, and has often wondered at the strange course taken by the ship of state when under the influence of popular jingoism...
When the mob began indiscriminately to invade rented offices in the building, Reporter Powell's assistant Lester Ziffren ran to the U. S. consulate on another floor, returned with a U. S. flag which he draped over the United Press doorway. ". . . The mob leaders, not wishing to cause a conflict with the U. S., stood by and ordered everything packed up lest it be damaged in the fire and flood which followed ... all we lost . . . was a fountain pen which was picked up by someone and a photograph of Julio Prestes [onetime] president-elect of Brazil [which was confiscated...
...Yellow Flag. Hottest criticism of the speech from the Throne came from sallow, fiery Laborite left winger James Maxton, M.P. He flayed the speech as not Socialist, accused Scot MacDonald of "running up the yellow flag of Liberalism." But a Maxton motion that the House "humbly regrets" the non-Socialist character of the Royal speech was defeated by 156 votes...
Moscow papers played up, London papers played down last week the fact that in Greek waters the British battleship Queen Elizabeth recently hoisted the red flag with Hammer & Sickle while her British band blared the Internationale...
...that historic moment every Red sailor felt the power of the Soviet Republic-a power which forced the representatives of English imperialism to hoist the hated Red flag and forced the band, accustomed to glorify the might of Britain, Empress of the Seas, to play the Internationale, summoning to battle all those oppressed by capitalism...