Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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United States Fleet Base Force, Train Squadron One U.S.S. Antares, Flag Ship Navy Yard, Norfolk...
...sons and daughters who are to be your crown and joy or your voiceless despair, I summon you to the comradeship of helping to make Washington safer for our homes here and the homes of the Nation everywhere. I do this for the sake of making the most beautiful flag in all the world 'a stainless flag' before the eyes of all the world. I do this for the sake of the Constitution. ... I do it for the sake of the ideals that must control your own children, who are dearer to you than the ruddy drops that...
...General Leonard Wood had been there three days before, had left without waiting for the Emissary. Strong men strained, heaved up anchor and Mr. Thompson again resumed his comfortable deck chair, gazed about as the boat proceeded down the coast of Mindanao, richest undeveloped island under the U. S. flag. Occasionally the party would land and thereupon be presented with the usual requests to continue U. S. rule. As his good ship lay off Zamboanga, Mr. Thompson was told that a Filipino-Moro clash had broken out over a question as to which delegation should have priority in greeting...
Impertinent German Communists have snickered recently over a poem in Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), have bellowed at an obscene cartoon in Knüppel (Cudgel...
PLAIN TALES OP THE NORTH- Thierry Mallet-Putnam ($2). Captain Mallet is president of a fur company (Revillon Freres) whose flag, flapping at the masthead of a trading schooner, has been watched for and hailed by Indians and Eskimos on the headlands of Labrador and Hudson's Bay for two centuries. Besides traveling in Siberia and soldiering in France, Captain Mallet has visited these hardy trappers many times. Evidently he has found time for good reading on his trips, or maybe it is through his Gallic inheritance that he comes by the lucid, restrained prose in which, a page...