Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flag was out at Sloan's Washington furniture auction house last week to mark another auction. It was not very smart furniture-ricketty rosewood tables, bulbous bureaus, gilt knicknacks popular in the late go's. But Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter, Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, went down to the sale as did 300 other Washington socialites, for under the auctioneer's hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman...
...Hutton - Other kind friends too, May all the joys you bring to us Come bouncing back to yon! Earlier in the week Mrs. Hutton had gone to the White House, where Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, as honorary chairman of the Women's National Council of the U. S. Flag Association, pinned a medal on her for "conspicuous service" in educational crusading against crime, made her a "Lady of the Flag." Walking through Manhattan's Central Park, Nursemaid Ruth Volz found "a string of beads," put them on. Few days later her husband noticed that they had an emerald...
Greeted on arrival by higher Foreign Office functionaries and by Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander Troyanovsky, Mr. Bullitt whirled off to the National Hotel where he smartly doffed his grey fedora to what Russians called "the first American flag flown officially in Moscow since the Revolution." To correspondents the Ambassador explained that he was on a flying visit, would pick a building to become the U. S. Embassy, return to Washington and later journey back to Moscow with an Embassy staff. While he is away in the U. S., said Ambassador Bullitt, there will...
...Ford's Sorensen, Pennsylvania Railroad's Atterbury, Baldwin Locomotive's Houston, Thomas A. Edison's son Charles, Theodore Roosevelt's son Kermit, Owen D. Young, Henry Morgenthau Sr. and dowagers galore. As Comrade Litvinoff waddled in to take his place beneath the crossed Red Flag and Stars and Stripes the "Star-Spangled Banner" brought all to their feet and few sat down when the organ switched into the "Internationale...
...Jacks, brandished the blazing banners until only charred staves remained. Leaders howled at the crowd, "Destroy every poppy in Dublin tomorrow and burn every Union Jack and every emblem of British imperialism." They excoriated President Eamon de Valera for not having made it a crime to fly the British flag in Dublin on Armistice...