Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yelling here tonight I knew something was going to happen. With a noise like that behind them the boys can't lose." Then followed the statement of uncompromising confidence in the team which has already been quoted. Adolph, the CRIMSON mascot, jumped to his feet waving the red flag presented to him by E.A. Whitney '17, in the days when CRIMSON diamond supremacy was a national by-word, and the crowd broke forth in a wild demonstration of approval. At this moment, two spectators overwrought by tension and excitement suddenly became unconscious and were helped...
...soil last week became, by international courtesy, territory of the Cuban republic. But only momentarily; for Gerardo Machado, President of Cuba, moved expeditely from Havana to visit President Coolidge. A Cuban law prohibits the Cuban President from leaving Cuba. Therefore, President Machado, never without a Cuban flag in his pocket, annexed every spot of U. S. soil for the moment during which he passed over it or paused upon it. He could not be accused of leaving Cuba. He took Cuba with him. He even annexed for Cuba, temporarily, a spot in the temporary U. S. White House...
...Steadfast amid 'the changes of this mortal life,' they unflinchingly held aloft the standard of ideal Americanism. . . . Because of their patriotic deeds the stars of our flag shine brighter in their azure field, while their inspiring example heightens the stainless purity of its white bars and deepens its crimson stripes with the warm blood of their hearts true devotion...
Puzzled policemen in Constantinople arrested last week "on suspicion" two little Greek boys aged 5 and 7, caught in the act of flying kites adorned with the blue and white stripes of the Greek flag. No doubt existed in the minds of the police that a crime had been committed; but they could not decide what crime. Soon telegrams flew between Constantinople and the new Turkish Capital, Angora...
...German cartoonist had dared to caricature President von Hindenburg during the recent April Fools' Day spree of lampooning German statesmen (TIME, April 11), were obliged to retract their error last week when attorneys for President von Hindenburg began suit for libel against the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne (Red Flag) because of a cartoon it published on April 1. Rote Fahne depicted a huge bull standing before three white-clad butchers, with the caption: Hindenburg in Civil Dress Reviews the Companies of Honor on Remembrance Day. Whatever this meant (and the President's attorneys professed ignorance) it at least...