Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...side court bards chanted a portion of the classics in a low tone. The great of the Empire surrounded the Imperial group. In it was Premier Güchi Tanaka, clad immaculately in Occidental formal attire. Hands placed together, he prayed, standing, eyes wide open, before a flag-adorned shrine...
School, Mount Holly, N. J. When Teacher Caroline Carroll stood up smartly with an American flag, all the other pupils raised their right hands in the trig salute that they had been taught to use. Not so William Albertson, who merely waggled one grimy paw. Said Teacher Carroll: "William Albertson, you salute that flag!" Smirked William Albertson: "Aw, I did salute it, didn't I, good enough?" Dullards sniggered, smart alecks frowned, Teacher Carroll made her face look stern. "You come with me, William Albertson, right now," said she. Out in the hall she seized William Albertson, shook...
Handwriting. Newspapers last week printed the last words of Paul Redfern, lost flyer to Brazil. In scratchy manuscript, dropped to the deck of the steamer Christian Krogh, the facsimile read: "Point ship to nearest land, wave flag or handkerchief once for each 100 miles. Thanks, Redfern...
...queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano, Marques del Duero. On the bridge of the Olympia stood two men; one of them was Commodore Dewey, commander of the American fleet, the other was his flag officer. The harbor was very quiet for a few minutes; it was only a little after five o'clock but you could hear dishes rattling in the galley of the Marques del Duero and the sudden high voice of the cook cry out, as if the curse were a signal...
Married. Mary Cohan, 18, daughter of George M. Cohan, patriot; to one Neil Litt, orchestra leader, following an elopement; at Elkton, Md. Georgette Cohan, eldest daughter of Mr. Cohan eloped in 1921 with one J. William Souther; telegraphed her father: "Married a Yankee Doodle boy. Wave your flag." Mr. Souther died in 1925 and she later married and divorced one William Hamilton Rowse. Mr. Cohan was divorced from his first wife, Actress Ethel 'Levey, who afterwards married Claude Graham White, famed British aviator...