Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grave, lined it with cement, built a coffin, hewed a stone from native granite. That was 18 years ago when he was 73. Since the Grim Reaper continued to elude him, Mr. Bowman thought of a scheme. He built a flagpole over his grave and attached a flag and halyard. When he feels life departing, he will crawl into the coffin, raise the flag, and the people in the valley, knowing his signal, will climb the hill and shovel the earth over...
...young Britons"; and positively asserted that the Communists before the court had received orders in the past from Moscow. The session was then adjourned pending the opening of the formal trial proceedings, and the twelve defendants trooped forth and were promptly hailed as heroes and crusaders by their flag-waving sympathizers. With them walked famed and unique Communist M. P. Shapurji Saklatvala, whom Secretary Kellogg recently barred from the U. S. (TIME, Sept. 28 CABINET). Shapurji had previously supplied bail for several of the accused; attentive, he had harkened to the words of Prosecutor Sir Travers, with intent to make...
Blood red the flag of Communism flew over Panama City. Rents had been high, wages low. Striking tenants and laborers swarmed in thousands through the streets, and frightened President Chiari of Panama into calling for U. S. troops from the Canal Zone...
Sadly President Chiari returned to his official residence; invited his U. S. guests to stay and police Panama until the present emergency is considered past. Declared satisfied U. S. conservatives: "Red flags fly at Panama, but the American flag flies above them." But U. S. radicals grumbled. "The sacred right of revolution has been wrested from a supposedly free people...
When passing a Catholic Church, as a mark of respect and honor to God who really and truly dwells therein, just as he, like every good American, removes his hat in respect and honor to the flag passing...