Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...green today in honor of that famous snake-destroyer St. Patrick. In those capitals of Ireland, Boston and New York, green clad parades will tie up traffic for untold hours, shopkeepers of all sorts will adopt a thick brogue in self-protection from belligerent green partisans, and the green flag for a day supercedes all others...
...dying. . . . Quick! Bring the flag of Italy! . . . Let me be wrapped within its glorious folds...
...mont went West with famed Kit Carson, observed buffalo, ate dog meat, charted the Continental Divide. Returning to Washington where Jessie lay in childbirth, he spread over her bed a ragged flag, said: "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. I have brought it to you." Then, with Jessie's aid, he wrote a report of his trip which exploded the myth that the "Great American Desert" lay between Missouri and the Rockies. The public read the document avidly; the movement westward was stimulated...
...destiny were firmly planted in Frémont's head. So, on his next trip to California, he began to write history instead of geography. Mexican General Castro ordered him out of California. He went up to Oregon and waited for an excuse to raise the U. S. flag over California. An Indian attack gave it to him. Quickly he assembled U. S. settlers, made Suiter's fort his base, marched the length of California, put an end to Mexican domination, was made provisional governor and com-mander-in-chief of California. He paused only long enough...
...presidential nominee of the new and crusading Republican (Free Soil) party, supported by the leading newspapers and liberals of the North. Conservative northerners feared to have so impetuous a man in the White House when southern Democrats were shouting: "Tell me, if the hoisting of the Black Republican flag . . . by a Frenchman's bastard, while the arms of civil war are already clashing [in Kansas], is not to be deemed an overt act and declaration of war?" So, placid Fillmore of the Whig party took enough votes away from Frémont to give the election to portly, blundering...