Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great limousine drawn up not far from a taxicab stand. It was a car hardly designed to lounge unnoticed through the streets of the metropolis, for one side of the shining tonneau was tastefully draped in ar large British Union Jack, the other in a large U. S. flag. In it sat three high hats-Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, British Consul; Walter L. Clark, President of the Grand Central Art Galleries; Irving T. Bush, Art patron. They were waiting for Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., to arrive from Washington. On the other side of Manhattan...
...justification for going there and did go in good faith, believing that it belonged to the United States. I do not think that the treaty protects their rights." If the treaty should be rejected and the Senate should instruct the President to take steps to raise the U. S. flag over the Isle of Pines, an acute situation would result. Cuba's Latin emotions would flare up. She would cry: "Outrage!" Our relations with her would be strained. The effect of such action would spread throughout Latin America, where it would be seized upon as another example...
...presence of Major General James G. Harbord, U. S. A., retired, who represented President Coolidge, and many distinguished Cubans and Americans, Mrs. Roosevelt pulled down the flag which shrouded the monument. Military and naval officers stood at the salute, civilians bared their heads...
...sombreros; there came industrial delegates in overalls ; there came white-collared workers in white collars; there came women workers in orange and white blouses with black shawls. Straight to Liberty Hall marched the Mexicans and entered amid cheers. The leaders of the parade, one of them carrying a Mexican flag, embraced Mr. Gompers. Speeches followed; and translations. Then Mr. Gompers called for representatives of the British Trades Union Congress, the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress, the German Federation of Trades Unions. They came to the platform; and all clasped hands. Tears rolled down Mr. Gompers' cheeks...
...rather than as first-hand verity. In general, I believe the members of the Team were courteous and considerate and well-behaved; but so, in general, were the French audiences that watched the Games. At any rate, remembering always our immense numbers, and that irritating business of anthem and flag, it does not seem to me we were treated sufficiently badly to enable us to cast any slurs. This question of booing is a question of breeding rather than of nationality anyway-as witness the South Boston, aggregation in the Harvard Stadium not so long...