Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Burgess (trainer), Helmi (Egyptian swimmer), Miss Cannon (another U. S. Channel aspirant) and one Timson (Boston swimmer). In the bow was a brass band. On the tug's side was a great white arrow with the legend, "This Way, Ole Kid." The band played The Star-Spangled Banner. Miss Ederle responded from the water. She swam the first four miles in three hours and had a drink of beef juice. The band played Yes, We HAVE No Bananas. Miss Cannon got into the water and swam for an hour; Miss Ederle offered her a drink of chocolate. Miss...
When the youth of a school greet a visiting governor of a state such greeting is not generally an informal one and it was no exception to the rule on this occasion; on the contrary, the governor was greeted by the pupils en masse, waving the Star-Spangled Banner and singing-yes, singing! Were they singing "The star-spangled banner . . . long may it wave," or "My Country 'Tis of Thee" or "The Red, White and Blue ?" They were not. They accompanied the waving of the Stars and Stripes with singing in chorus "The Sidewalks of New York...
...steel and whalebone, long, short, and medium, constructed in a thousand exacerbating shapes. Some of these women still survive. They continue to demand corsets that lace. They constitute, however, only 15% of the U. S. corset buyers, the Bureau of the Census made clear last week, reporting a banner year (1925) for the corset and brassiere trade. The daughters of the lacing women have trifled with their mothers' advice; they purchase only the vaguest and least expensive corsets, girdles, slip-ons. There are 166 corset and brassiere manufacturers in the U. S.-one less than...
...strewn in every quarter of the globe from Indo-China to Mexico? Flotsam recruits never explain their presence beneath the knapsack of the legionnaire, but it is not insignificant that while fighting for the far-flung Tri-color of France these romantic, scarred gentlemen rankers are protected by that banner from all extraditions. Glamorous traditions, adventure, protection...
...Returned under the banner of Lord Salisbury who cried: "It is quite obvious what these noble (filibustering) Lords are trying to do. It is an abuse of the traditions and privileges of the House. I move that the question be now put!" (The bill passed 44 to 4, was signed by the King-Emperor...