Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband against former Governor Noble Foss of Massachusetts. There also was Frank W. Stearns, merchant-friend of the President. Cameras clicked. A schoolboy dashed up with a box of flowers for Mrs. Coolidge. The President entered his car, and the party?a procession of 15 automobiles?drove slowly through flag-draped streets, slowing down before schoolhouses where children lined up with flags, singing. Not having breakfasted, the President did not stop for a peek at the House of the Seven Gables...
...committee, appointed by the Government, began the important work of deciding what shall be the design for a Canadian national flag...
...President addressed a few well-chosen words to the President of the National Flag Day Association on the subject of the Stars and Stripes: "It pictures the vision of a people whose eyes were turned to the rising dawn. It represents the hope of a father for his posterity. It was never flaunted for the glory of a royalty, but to be born under it is to be a child of a king and to establish a home under it is to be a founder of a royal house...
First there was Roald Amundsen, intrepid wanderer in frozen places, who had planted the flag of Norway on the nether extremity of the globe. Then there was Riiser Larsen, his airplane pilot, and Lincoln Ellsworth, who piloted another airplane. Ellsworth, 45, son of an Ohio magnate, who first tasted the Arctic on an extensive survey for the Canadian Pacific R. R. in the Peace River area of Northwestern Canada, jumped to the tropics and reported on animal and vegetable life in Yucatan for the Smithsonian Institution, then north again to Baffin's Bay for the American Museum of Natural...
...north of everything else, may not be found by MacMillan, may or may not cause a quarrel between Canada and Maine. Why Maine? "Because," said Governor Brewster in the farewell banquet given the explorers at Wiscasset, "this land will belong to Maine." And he presented MacMillan with the silken flag of the state to plant on this hypothetical land by way of a stake-claim notice...