Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were seated at the radio. . . . When it was announced that Mr. Roosevelt was nominated . . . our dear little brown dog Brownie . . . picked up a small rug and began to shake it and run all around the room with it in his mouth, as though he was waving his banner for the next President...
Sirs: ... In Texas that tune is not "Working on the Railroad," except in the sense that "America" is ''God Save the King" and "The Star Spangled Banner" is "Anacreon in Heaven." It is "The Eyes of Texas." There was a president of the University of Texas [William L. Prather-ED.], a generation ago, whose pet admonition to the undergraduates was, "Remember, the eyes of Texas are upon you." A collegian [John Lang Sinclair- ED. J to express irreverent student sentiment toward the repetitious phrase, wrote certain words to a popular air, and loudly a group of young...
...parade. To the graduating class next day he said: ''The navy with the greatest number of those who can secure [the best spirit] . . . who can also think, will win wars." Then came one of June Week's most notable features. The band played "The Star-Spangled Banner." Several thousand friends and relations stood poised. Into the air went the 421 white caps of the graduates. Visitors scrambled for the caps-most of them old ones the midshipmen no longer want-traditional souvenirs...
...their national convention last week 1,200 Communists hired a dingy hall in Chicago's "Little Poland." There the delegates who had tramped, hitchhiked or worked their way to Chicago raised their fists and sang the "Internationale," cheered the unfolding of a big banner on which was printed in Russian: "Workers of the World, Unite." Only one delegate from Kentucky was there, 14 others having "disappeared" in Pineville. The Washington, D. C., delegation was temporarily held in jail in Bedford, Pa. Thomas Mooney, an honorary member of the managing committee, was in jail in San Quentin, Calif. Keynoter Earl...
...Passed a bill by Alabama's Bankhead authorizing the expenditure of $1,000,000 per year for four years to help State vocational education. ¶ Received from Arkansas' Fuller a bill to require each & every Government employe to know by heart "The Star-Spangled Banner...