Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American, there came to Panama City two Spanish boys in a battered Studebaker touring car. The chassis of the machine was set high on the axles, it had no mudguards, and it looked to be capable of negotiating even a jungle cart trail. On the side flapped a dusty banner proclaiming its destination as "New York, America, U. S. A." At that time no motor road crossed the Isthmus from Panama City (southeast) to Colon (northwest). The Panama Railroad hurdled huge Gatun Lake on a trestle, planes soared from side to side, but the motor road existed only in blueprints...
Lily Pons sang the Star-Spangled Banner. Protestant Episcopal Bishop Francis Marion Taitt pronounced a prayer. Senator Pat Harrison announced to Mr. Garner his renomination as Vice President. The Vice President answered in a brief speech of psalmodic inspiration...
...When a spinster reaches the age of 55 something ought to be done for her!", postulated Hattie, Lady Fisher-Smith as she led through London last week 5,000 banner-waving British spinsters singing such songs...
...ecclesiastical news. He can no longer with reason utter the peppery denunciations of the conduct of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. which used to keep him constantly before the public. A relieved good-by to Dr. Machen & Co. was said last week by the Presbyterian Banner: "We have no unkind feelings toward these brethren but hope they will treat one another better than they have treated...
...Minneapolis, Helen Gross, 22, convinced that she had been unfairly arrested for speeding, refused to leave jail after her mother paid her fine, was ejected. Thereupon Helen Gross returned to the scene of her arrest, drove back & forth with a banner affixed to her car: "Picket! This car is traveling at a maximum speed, 20 miles per hour. Do Not Pass...