Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draw away a Confederate and a Union flag from the towering figure of Lee on his favorite warhorse, "Traveler," another New Yorker had been taken to Atlanta. This was small, grave, smooth-cheeked Robert Edward Lee IV, aged 5, whom everyone asks if he is going to be a soldier like his great-grandfather when he grows...
Dewar: "Did you ever say you were fed up with the ship on which I was your flag captain...
...really want is for you to give me a good time. ... In return I'll keep company with you!-literally. . . . They can judge, then, if my company's worth it. What's to prevent them running? . . . It's the same high seas and black flag...
...Loveday buccaneered through garish London night life, dipped her black flag to Charles-"formal, formidable, fastidious," to which descriptive f's Loveday later added "fatuous, fulsome," because of his devotion to a silly mother, self-styled "Petal." Bankrupt, Pirate Loveday shipped for foreign parts as partner to a professional dancer. In Budapest he attempted his own interpretation of "keeping company," but Loveday "whooshed"' off to London, on the "wadge" of kronen which a Hungarian tart pulled generously out of her stocking...
...washing up into a wave in the grandstand. It had been raining in the morning, but the rain had stopped; the sky was full of shifting clouds through which the sunlight shone in patches. Three times the horses, picked English, French, American jumpers, lined up and broke before the flag sent them away for the Grand National, the world's most famed steeplechase, run annually since 1839, near Liverpool, England...