Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Badges worn by a smalltown delegation of realtors on their way to their state convention were lettered: WE ZOOM FOR ZENITH. And a banner proclaimed: ZENITH THE ZIP CITY-ZEAL, ZEST AND ZOWIE! Heading the delegation was one George Follansbee Babbitt ". . . 46 years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His face was babyish . . . despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose...
...every knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter there is a banner hanging and a plaque screwed up in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. After nine years of restoration, at a cost of more than $1.000.000 (much of it supplied by U. S. Anglophiles), this No. i shrine of British chivalry was re-opened last week in the presence of George V and The Lady of the Garter (Queen Mary...
James Ramsay MacDonald, though not a K. G., sat, by right of his Prime Ministry, in a stall next to that once occupied by onetime Knight Wilhelm II of Germany. Keen eyes observed that during the $1,000.000 restoration the banner of the All Highest War Lord was indeed removed, but his plaque remains, still tightly screwed in place...
Tailcoat fluttering, dressed as he thought Paul Revere dressed, one David H. Oakes last week rode an old grey mare out of Boston along the course of his model's famed gallop. He rode slowly, through a drizzling rain. Upon the old grey mare flapped a banner lettered: AROUSE CITIZENS! VOTE "NO" ON NOVEMBER 4! Instead of shouting "The British are coming!" this 1930 Paul Revere stopped in each town to hand out a few manifestoes arguing against repeal of the Massachusetts Prohibition Enforcement Act in next week's State referendum. It began: "Hear ye, all people...
...Plate of Gold. When the U. S. special puffed into New Flower, a coal-black band with an olive-skinned conductor blared "The Star Spangled Banner." Amid a 17-gun salute Abyssinia's Crown Prince greeted the beaming U. S. Ambassador and his stern escort, Brig.-General William W. Harts, U. S. A. Smartly escorted by native cavalry the U. S. party clattered off to their hotel, dined there that night on the King of Kings' own gold plate, loaned for the occasion as an especial mark of Royal favor...