Word: banners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleased the purse-poor folk around her who scarcely missed a performance. She studied a year in Washington, was taken one afternoon to call on Mrs. McKinley. News came: DEWEY VICTORIOUS AT MANILA?and Farrar, still the Student, sat down at the piano, played and sang the "Star Spangled Banner...
...must know I admired him when I would sing for him 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Ye gods, 'The Star-Spangled Banner' of all songs! Well, of course, I didn't know the words. I asked Bill Tilden to give me the words to the song and he went as far as 'Oh, say, can you see?' Then he 'ta-da-daed' the rest. What a scholar he is! Finally I had to have the words looked up in a library...
...trouble began with "The Star Spangled Banner." A lubberly, stoop-shouldered, churlish boy, one Ralph Esposito, refused to sing it. So his teacher sent him to Principal William M. Rainey's office.* The boy went, but would give no satisfactory explanation of his stubbornness. "Well," said Principal Rainey, "do you want to put on the boxing gloves with one of the other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts...
...mind, conscience, and particularly the sense of liberty. It is a wise and humorous treatment of a subject which must have driven many a dean in many college to the borders of insanity-the student who, when haled into court for over-cutting or neglect of studies, waves the banner of liberty and demands to be treated like a man; and who, when confronted later with some such item as a bill for broken furniture, waives his right to adult standing and asks that the bill be sent to his father...
Replied Beloit, Wis.: "Wisconsin's pro-British Conservation Commission protects English pheasants introduced into this State to make our loyal Germans dissatisfied with their spareribs and sauerkraut. In the name of 100% Americans, can't you do something about it? Under your starry banner we will fight for the complete extermination of English pheasants, English sparrows and English bulldogs. Don't let King George...