Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours the Italian advance was held up, then, well satisfied, the Ethiopians slunk further back into their mountains to try again. Belatedly the Italian flag went up on the ruins of empty Aduwa. First troops into the town were the 84th Infantry of the Gaviana division, who received the honor of leading the assault because they were the first troops to be sent to East Africa. With them they carried a strange piece of equipment, a fragment of a Roman column, brought all the way from Italy to be propped up in the market square of Aduwa in memory...
...losses in the capture of Aduwa have been entirely insignificant. Casualty lists will be published in due time." All the publicity, flag waving and glory went to the capture of Aduwa, but this advance, due south from Asmara was not necessarily the most important in the Italian campaign. Two other Italian armies were in the field last week biting their way too into Ethiopia without benefit of foreign war correspondents...
...another stood at attention in impressive ceremony as the body of Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg was transferred from a side tower of the massive Tannenberg war memorial to a permanent vault in the centre tower. Over the national hero's coffin lay the old German war flag with the iron cross on red, white and black. At half-mast everywhere else in Germany only the new Nazi swastika banner was allowed...
...voice (Cliff Edwards), almost becomes a passable imitation of It Happened One Night, degenerates on their arrival into a tedious display of Red-baiting, climaxed when the soldier breaks up the meeting at which the radical is making a speech. Silliest shot: Robert Young pointing to a U. S. flag tattooed on his forearm...
...existent, such as this request or the Teachers Oath Bill, would be laughable if they did not reveal a real if immature attempt on Boston's part to be a patriotic American city. But it must be admitted that a more effective way to ensure allegiance to the flag would be to practice honest city government, and a better attitude towards the negroes would be to treat them as equals intellectually...