Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Made the "Star Spangled Banner" the national anthem...
Criminal Bassani was proved by the Crown Prosecutor to have "uttered several vulgar phrases" when two women entered his shop to buy white and yellow cloth. He had jumped correctly to the conclusion that they intended to make a Papal banner and by his words "grossly insulted these inoffensive females...
...least indicated last week. Archduke Rainer Carl, an unimportant, very distant cousin, died in penury in Vienna a few days after Albrecht acclaimed Otto. Wily ex-Empress Zita, Otto's mother, saw in the death a chance to bring all remaining Habsburgs under her son's banner. Magnificently she ordered a royal funeral for the pauper, had him interred next to the bones of Emperor Franz Josef and for the first time in more than a decade Vienna saw the yellow and black flag of the Habsburgs on public view...
...afternoon last week. Conductor Arturo Toscanini did the unprecedented, held the New York Philharmonic-symphony waiting for more than ten minutes. Then spying the sedate Queen entering the royal box, he struck up "God Save the King" (King George alone stayed seated), followed it with "The Star Spangled Banner'' (the King stood with the rest), a Rossini overture and a heavy Teutonic program. Never before (the verdict was unanimous) had Britishers heard such a concert. Ten thousand cheered after each number. During the intermission the King called Toscanini to his box to congratulate him. And tall George Bernard Shaw...
...from the destroyer divisions (26 strong, four abreast, led by the cruiser Concord), then from the dreadnaughts (eleven strong, in three columns, led by the Texas),* finally from the 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington, the presidential salute of 21 guns per ship plus the "Star-Spangled Banner" by each ship's band, came muffled from a mile away downwind. Alert at first, then seemingly lost in thought, the central figure stood with his fedora hat on during most of the spectacle. He did not reply when white-whiskered old Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, soon-retiring Chief...