Word: banners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation as a whole, La Follette the elder was a radical. Twice he bolted the G.O.P. to raise the Progressive banner and seek the presidency. Twice he was rejected. Wisconsin Progressivism remained a rip tide of political thought in the Republican sea. To be elected, La Follette had always to return to the G.O.P. But Fighting Bob believed that the nation would eventually embrace the Wisconsin Idea; he trained his two sons to follow; in his footsteps. When he died, plump, quiet, sleek-haired Bob Jr. went to Washington and took his father's seat in the Senate...
...Pounds & Dozens. In Bennington, Vt., butter-&-eggless Evening Banner Editor Paul Howe headlined a new policy: subscriptions payable in butter & eggs...
Kristopher Berg, 1G.B., once more wreathed the Crimson banner with skiing honors last weekend when he "Nose-Dived" down the icy Mt. Mansfield trail to win both the slalom and downhill races and to carry off the U.S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association's Sandler Trophy...
...scarlet-jacketed musicians were no strangers to the executive mansion. As members of the 85-member Marine Band, and the 20-piece Marine symphony orchestra, they get to almost all presidential social functions. At receptions, they march guests in with tunes like Under the Starry Banner, march them out to Loyal Comrades. Says blue-eyed, dimpled Captain William F. Santelmann, director of the three-in-one band: "The effect on the guests is psychological. Something about the tempo of a march makes you feel . . . things have got to move...
...popish dido, a sop to the senses, a hurdle waiting to trip man in his upward struggle." She had to give Jess a pretty stern nudge in the ribs every seventh month, fourth day (Fourth of July), when Amanda Prentis hurdled the high notes of The Star Spangled Banner...