Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally comes out topside and, as might be expected, is ready to and almost does, die for the dear old navy. Certain interludes when Ruby Keeler tapdances, Dick Powell sings, and several fine photographic shots of Annapolis do much to relieve the tedium of an ancient story replete with flag-waving. Unless one can see intrinsic beauty and goodness in battleships, however, pleasure in seeing the picture will be marred by the most obvious kind of propaganda...
...incident touching off a European war lay in the daily increasing irritability of Englishmen and Italians as their war boats and trade vessels elbowed each other in the Mediterranean. With the tone of reporting an Italian atrocity, the British steamer Cairo City radioed London papers that her flag-salutes to Italian war boats were not being returned "although there is still a rigid rule of the sea requiring the salute...
...time for rallies and demonstrates. it is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party. Boos for the opposition and booze for our side. We point with bride and we view with alarm. We must defend the Constitution. We must defend the American flag. We must protect the rights of the people...
Four reasons you should vote for Buncombe Pratt: He is a democrat! His father was a democrat! He is an American! He is of the people, by the people, and for the people! Wave the flag, strike up the band, the Stars and Stripes Forever...
Holy Cross and Harvard students took little part in the combat--probably their spirit has already been sapped by the insidious radicalism of pre-Oath teaching. Only outsiders, unexposed to cowardly rationalism, were eager to do or die for the dear old College and the dear old Flag. These heroes fought the good fight and went home with spirits uplifted, eyes inflamed, and noses bloody. The Cambridge police eventually intervened, although civilization would have been better served had the carnage continued, with more spirits elevated, more eyes blackened, and more noses smashed...