Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inextricably woven into one another, forming that solid and enduring core in every American's heart that makes him spontaneously whip off his hat when Old Glory comes marching down the street fluttering its red and white stripes to the bounding breeze. What a thrill the sight of Our Flag sends coursing through the red blood of every true citizen. "Hats off! The flag is going by." This is the sentiment as the poet has crystallized...
...have put emphasis on the Flag, because the Flag is loyalty, and loyalty is the Flag, one and inseparable. Wherever the Flag is, there is our love of country, the concrete symbol of all our hopes, all that is best in us, what we have striven for on countless battle fields, in the Spanish-American War, for instance, and the War of 1812. When we lift our hands for the pledge and solemnly repeat: "I pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the country for which it stands, one and indivisible, with liberty and justice...
...pause. Let us now change our beaming faces from a smile of loyalty to deeply furrowed frowns. Let us shake our heads and hold up a finger pregnant with remonstrance. Where is the American Flag in Cambridge? Plainly and simply-nowhere. Hardly the embers of patriotism glow in its frigid bosom. To be specific. Did the Flag, the Stars and Stripes of the American Republic, wave over University Hall on February 22 last? Yes, it did wave from two o'clock in the afternoon until six P. M. A feeble display of the ritual was carried out without that deep...
...message to everyone of us. The Crimson feels it is going forth like the Crusaders of old to put the United States of America back on the map, and to make Harvard Man and One Hundred Per Cent American Citizen synonymous. Hats off! The Crimson and the American Flag are going...
...rigged up a blocky mannikin with swiveled arms and wired innards. Then he, others also, at the Level Club blew whistles of those assorted tones to which the dunderhead had been attuned. It pulled a rope that raised a flag that covered the painted face of George Washington; it raised a telephone receiver; it set a vacuum cleaner and electric fan going and the Masonic audience applauding...