Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pasha was pleased to learn that Mr. Baldwin is prepared to withdraw British troops from Cairo shortly and haul down the British flag from its citadel. He is further prepared to withdraw "gradually" large British forces now at Alexandria and elsewhere in Egypt. According to a new Anglo-Egyptian treaty undergoing final negotiations this week, defense of the Suez...
...carries in his body three German War bullets, made no secret that Jew Blum is in haste to patch peace with Nazi Hitler, knowing that at the first crack of war Blum's Socialist-Communist supporters in France would be overwhelmed by Frenchmen carrying not the red flag but the tricolor. "On different occasions Chancellor Hitler has proclaimed his wish for an understanding with France!" cried M. Delbos. "We do not for one moment intend to question the word of a former combatant who during four years experienced the misery of the trenches...
When the royal yacht Dannebrog put in at Reykjavik, Iceland's metropolis, it flew not the white-crossed red flag of Denmark but Iceland's own royal flag of red, white & blue. This time King Christian had made a Slesvig - Holsten -Sonderborg -Glikksborg family party of it, bringing his retiring German Queen Alexandrine, his second son Prince Knud and Knud's cousin-wife Princess Caroline Mathilde. Chief greeter was Iceland's 35-year-old Premier Hermann Jonasson, who led his Icelandic sovereign to a round of dinners, automobile trips, state council meetings and the signing...
...imminence by their signal drums, the Negroes called him "White Song Man," dubbed Bishop Moore "Biscuit" or "Wangi Bischoff" (Yankee bishop). For the trombone they could think of no descriptive word. A practiced sleight-of-hand artist who claims he once could do with one hand a flag trick which Magician Howard Thurston needed two to perform, Song Man Rodeheaver performed legerdemain for the Africans, taking care not to let them think that magic had anything to do with...
...sampling" questionnaires; a Family Responsibility Division would keep tabs on the number of children born to church members; a Personal Habits Division would "record the percentage of church members who are strictly temperate and who shun harmful habits"; an unnamed Division might "record the homes where the Christian flag is flying." Finally, "without taking any part in politics, our Congregational-Christian Churches should strive to get out a 100% vote of our church members...