Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brest bold Sub-Prefect Jacques Henry risked lynching by Red mobsters who had torn down the tricolor of France from his Sub-Prefecture and hoisted a Communist banner, to the vast delight of Moscow (see p. 24). While rioters surged around him singing the Internationale, M. Henry grabbed the lanyards and began hauling down the Red flag amid a hail of rivets, bolts and paving stones, one of which bloodied his head. Shouting "Vive la Patrie!", injured Sub-Prefect Henry not only shoved and bluffed his way out of the crowd without giving up the Red flag which...
...indication of what the winter of 1935-36 will hold for cinemaddicts, China Seas, a first rate melodrama, lively, funny, and convincing, is highly reassuring. Its popularity at its premiere last week seemed to presage box-office records and a banner year, as usual, for the most ingratiating member of its cast, Jean Harlow...
...unhappy condition of the Boston Braves baseball team is a matter of long standing. For a decade its players have felt that they enjoyed a banner year when they finished in the first division. Last year the club's treasury showed a serious deficit. This year, the situation grew acute. First, the Braves' President Judge Emil Fuchs proposed to run dog races at Braves Field as a side attraction. The National League indignantly refused to allow it. Then Colonel Jacob Ruppert of the New York Yankees made Judge Fuchs a present of Babe Ruth. Dazzled momentarily by what...
...with Maria Theresa's death date, 1780, only date considered any good by Ethiopian chiefs whom Signor Mussolini expects to bribe to desert their Emperor, as well as by Arab sheiks whom II Duce plans to hire from across the Red Sea and fling under Islam's banner against Negro soldiers of the Cross...
...Manhattan, sturdy little Jose Iturbi. by now accepted as a first-class conductor as well as a brilliant pianist, mounted a podium in the floodlighted Lewisohn Stadium, led the Philharmonic-Symphony expertly through the Star-Spangled Banner, Wagner's rousing overture to Die Meistersinger, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat and, with Violinist Albert Spalding, the Mendelssohn Concerto. As usual, aged Adolph Lewisohn, donor of the Stadium and a patron of the concerts, made a little speech. So did peppery, music-loving Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. Hooted and booed by radicals...