Word: banner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hospitals and improvised morgues which were turned into charnel houses for the night, 484 dead were counted; it was the most disastrous U.S. fire since 571 people were killed in Chicago's Iroquois Theater holocaust in 1903. One Boston newspaper ran a two-word banner line: BUSBOY BLAMED. But the busboy had not put up the Cocoanut Grove's tinder-box decorations, nor was he responsible for the fact that Boston's laws do not require nightclubs to have fireproof fixtures, sprinkler systems or exit markers...
Willkie looked excited but very tired, as he had on his Moscow arrival (TIME, Oct. 5). The brass band was sour as it started the Star-Spangled Banner, but soon improved and was fine in the Chinese anthem. In the airport rest house Willkie said the right thing: "One of the difficulties facing me is that one falls so much in love with the Chinese people that it is difficult to form a critical and fact-finding judgment." According to Chinese custom, he was given a hot towel with which to refresh his hands...
...broad-shouldered man with a photogenic grin stepped from a Navy bomber. Troops in red tunics and white helmets presented arms. A band played The Star-Spangled Banner. Four years ago the same man had visited Brazil as a private citizen. Now Colonel Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, came as a comrade in arms. He lunched with President Getulio Vargas, banqueted with Brazil's top fighting men, visited war plants and strategic airfields...
...that shell-scarred mast you'll pull down your meatball flag. Then you and the rest of your gang will stand at attention while Douglas MacArthur puts the Stars & Stripes back up there. . . . And . . . Sessue . . . that music you're hearing is our theme, the old Star-Spangled Banner . . . you remember that . . . and when it gets to the 'Oh say can you see' part . . . Sessue . . . you take off your hat and brush a tear from your eye . . . whether you've got one there or not . . . because you're sorry . . . Sessue . . . sorry...
Wherever Negroes gather in the U.S., hands rise just as quickly to such a question. To them Lift Every Voice and Sing is the No. 2 song to the national anthem. While white people bemoan the lack of suitable patriotic songs, even find fault with The Star-Spangled Banner's annoying octave-and-a-half range, colored people have quietly adopted a rousing anthem of their...