Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight numbers in rank and Lieutenant Commander Friedell lost 25 numbers. Thus Captain Karns, who, after 37 years of unmarred service, was well up on the list of Captains from whom Rear Admirals are chosen, faced at least a postponement of his chance to fly an Admiral's flag...
...shore of the little fishing village of Ver-sur-Mer, where in 1588 one of the prides of the Spanish Armada had been shattered on the rocks. Lieutenant Noville twice returned to the America's wreck to save the first transatlantic air mail, a tiny Betsy Ross flag for President Gaston Doumergue of France, some of Commander Byrd's scientific data...
...Bulletin too has its red cover. Red is a masculine color and you are integrating the American mind out of its effeminate idolatry of words. Did you ever tell your 100% objectors to your red strip to begin with the flag...
When, last fortnight, President Coolidge reviewed the United States Fleet (see p. 7) Admiral Charles F. Hughes was its commander-in-chief. Should the President review the Fleet next summer, its admiral's flag will not be flown for Admiral Hughes. For Admiral Hughes was last week appointed Chief of Naval Operations. His appointment will take effect Nov. 14, when Admiral Edward W. Eberle, present Chief of Naval Operations, will become president of the General Board of the Navy. Rear Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley will succeed Admiral Hughes as commander of the United States Fleet; his position will make...
...pages in the Taxi Weekly are a power for good conduct among Manhattan cabbies, tabulating penalties meted out in the city's special Hack Bureau to perpetrators of prevalent hackmen's peccadillos: driving "with the flag up" (metre not recording); taking indirect routes; smoking while carrying passengers; withholding receipts from employers; forgetting license badge; charging an Englishman who undervalued U. S. currency $14 for a $1.40 ride...