Word: banners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John McCormack, Irish-American tenor, returned from Ireland and announced he might sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Smith rally in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, "provided, of course, that I'm wanted." Wanted, he sang...
...phrase "with banners" exalted the decoration to an infinite zenith. One banner was inscribed "The Chinese love General Butler as they love China." Another banner: "General Butler loves China as he loves America...
...send its members madly dashing about with petitions, buttonholing passersby to sigh up for Hoover and the safety of the American home. It prefers to leave those tactics to the "dignified" Hooverites. Likewise have they found it unnecessary to create half a dozen organizations to include under the Hoover banner voters of both parties and every conceivable degree of undergraduate. It finds that Smith supporters are satisfied to be called simply Smith supporters. To these men it holds open the opportunity of working sincerely for the election of The Happy Warrior. David E. Scoll...
Cried keynoter and Chairman of the Congress George Lansbury (a onetime Red now faded Pink and increasingly potent, among Laborites) : "Socialism is now British Labor's only goal. We raise that banner aloft and we shall keep it flying until Great Britain's resources are owned and used in the service of all the people...
Across the Hippodrome stretched a 100-foot banner-slogan: Stanley for Stability! Excited delegates knew that Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was about to speak and officially open the national campaign. When it seemed that beloved Stanley Baldwin was going to be just a bit late, as usual, the Conference vented high spirits by singing to an old, rollicking tune a new and most significant campaign song...