Word: emblemmed
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...Union, they may be flown together; in Dutch-speaking parts, they may be flown separately. This to overcome the sensibilities of British Africanders and Boer Africanders. The flag dispute in South Africa has been the cause of violent recriminations between the Boer and the British population. A dozen emblems have been suggested- only to be fiercely denounced by one side or the other. The Dutch (Boers) would have none of the Union Jack, seeing in that emblem a sign of their defeat by the British; the English-speaking section would no more tolerate the republican flags, unless the Union Jack...
Children are colloquially and good-humoredly called "kids," not from the undesirable characteristics of young goats, but rather from their unquenchable instinct to play and frolic; just as the eagle is accepted as an American emblem, not because of the fact that it is a bird of prey, but rather because of its admirable characteristics, such as strength, size, and keenness of vision...
Stalwart Republicans made light of these remonstrances, saw nothing unusual in forcing the national army to use the national colors, adding that permission to fly the monarchist emblem might lead to a part of the army fighting against the Republic, if they so chose...
Crown. Anton Smetona, popular father of his country and the first and present President of the republic of Lithuania (founded 1918), politely, firmly, magnificently refused the offer of a golden crown last week. A group of tenacious monarchists raised the flag of royalism, which has been a dead emblem many years, because they felt that the country would prosper, as it did of old, under the sway of an autocrat and because they thought that the President, with themselves as his courtiers and advisors, could raise the standard of Lithuania to its highest eminence...
...behind plows or on top of girders shoving or straining in to a sudden rapid beauty, could not deny some element of truth in these remarks. Nor could they regard the term "beauty show" as applied to a procession of pseudonymphs kept decently warm by hairpins and the emblem of their hometowns as more than a misappellation, not to be corrected by the inclusion of seminaked gentlemen...