Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long been traditional for "Mike" to appear at Yale games with a small crimson flag given to him in 1908 by D. D. Haughton '99, after the University had defeated a powerful Yale eleven 4 to 0 on a drop-kick. This flag waved at properties moments has spelt source of confusion to Eli cohorts for the last decade...
Instantly a 40-foot flag of gasoline flames shook itself up from the gully, furbelowed with black. Captain Fonck and Lieutenant Curtin were found struggling to their feet, 20 yards from the inferno they had escaped before it burst. The flames had their way for hours. Then, certain cinders, a Koran, a crucifix, indicated where Charles Clavier and Jacob Islamoff had burned behind jammed doors. There was no angry inquiry as to why the "dolly" had not been finally tested. Pilot Fonck, Lieutenant Curtin, Designer Sikorsky and his aids, were all exonerated by the coroner of criminal negligence. Some "fanatics...
Twelve sons of Islam carried the 600-pound red, leaden coffin containing his body for a mile and a half from a Westbury funeral parlor to the Sikorsky hangar. Upon the coffin was the now obsolete flag of the Imperial Russian Navy under the Tsar. Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears...
...short. They faced each other, the small one standing with his knees slightly bent, his shoulders hunched, his left thumb insultingly applied to his buttonish nose. In his right hand was a little wooden sword. On his head appeared a crested toy helmet, bravely capped by a toy British flag. Behind his twiddling fingers, the small creature's mouth was opened in scolding anger; his scrubby mustache and beetling eyebrows bristled. His spectacles added to the effect of impotent, scrawny anger, which the tall figure, in familiar top hat and long coattails, surveyed with quizzical geniality, hands in pockets...
...Last week the Aquitania docked in Manhattan with two of the most gruesome immigrants in history aboard. They were giant carnivorous lizards, over nine feet long, from the Island of Komodo, Dutch East Indies, descendants of the dinosaurs, the the probable originals of the dragon on China's flag. Out of their mouths shot forked tongues of scarlet, like flames. When angered, they hissed like escaped steam. Their bodies, thick as a brawny man's, were studded with scales like nail heads. Down their backs ran a jagged ridge of tough "armor plate." First of their kind...