Word: banners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York, left his state Capital, went to the Bronx, attended the wedding of a niece. From the church the Governor did not go to the wedding breakfast. He went to a parochial school next door where youngsters greeted him, waving the Star Spangled Banner and singing The Sidewalks of New York. The Governor of New York made an address: "Only hard work and hard study can carry the children of the sidewalks of New York, and"-the presidential candidate added-"the children of the country-to success and high honor." Then he went...
...Oration by E. J. Bliss '26 will be given at the close of the Tree Exercises. After the annual cheering, the Glee Club is scheduled to render a brief informal program, which is to be followed by the presentation of the Class banner to the Freshman Class. The singing of "Fair Harvard" and the Confetti Battle will end the afternoon events...
...compromise flag will be devised and submitted to the Reichstag by the Cabinet; but until that is approved or rejected all German consulates (except at inland European towns) will continue to fly the merchant marine flag (greatly resembling the old imperial flag) as well as the ordinary banner of the Reich...
...Karl Muck, pre-War conductor of the Boston Symphony, similarly refused (in 1918) to conduct "The Star Spangled Banner." Ousted, he now conducts for the Berlin State Opera, is considered the greatest living interpreter of Wagnerian scores...
...square of water, as blue as a banner, a liquid panel like a window into star-space, it dreams, moveless, in the white tile floor. Drawn up against walls patterned less purely with tiles of ochre and green and ruby, naked attendants in breech clouts wait to knead and oil the bathers in the hot rooms, steam rooms, medicated rooms, therapeutic rooms beyond...