Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that of a woman pointing a revolver. II Duce, intent upon his thoughts, did not notice the blue steel muzzle trained upon his temple. As a band struck up the Fascist hymn, "Giovinezza," he threw back his head and fixed his eyes on a staff flying the Italian flag. The bullet sped, but not into Signor Mussolini's brain. He had thrown back his head sufficiently so that it pierced only the tip of his nostrils. Tiny stinging powder burns seared his cheek, his lips...
...After this utterance, Editor Mencken presented Harvard University with the Flag of Maryland (he is a native of Baltimore) and the students and professors, rising to their feet, tendered him the Harvard cheer, three times three. Commented the New York Tribune...
...leviathan's cabin while Mrs. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, wife of the ship's second-in-command, performed the orthodox rite with a bottle of bubbling wine, and Dr. Rolf Thormessen stood by to receive the vessel in the name of the Aero Club of Norway. A silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft at the bag's stern. Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth entrained next day for Oslo, Norway, leaving Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen and the Norge's designer, Colonel Nobile, to conduct the Norge to Spitzbergen as soon as weather favored. There the chiefs will...
...supreme, are soundly satisfactory. They tell the story of a chicken-rancher on Long Island who became a champion six-day bicycle rider. And of his girl, who was so dumb that when he took her to The Big Parade he had to buy her a flag...
When questioned by the CRIMSON reporter as to the Crimson of the activities which were place in the very of the cupola and flag pole, President Whedon, Lampy's heavy leader, made the following pointed statement. "This is a party sent out by the American Mountaineers Society to ascertain if the lbis has yet laid any eggs...