Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that America has ceased to marvel at dance marathons, and flag-pole sitting no longer pays dividends, it is not at all remarkable that Yankee ingenuity has provided another spectacle for the vicarious enjoyment of the multitude, which combines an element of sport with the best features of the aforementioned pastimes--namely, the one hundred and fifty rubber bridge match of Ely Culbertson and wife us. Hal Sims and wife at Crockferd's Club in New York...
...night A New Dawn is playing; And far above all nations, The people's flag is flying-WHITE And we have heard a call That was never raised before, And we're making camp FOR NO MORE...
...Catholic priest was delivering an invocation. President Sproul was booming out his thanks to the kind souls who gave his pub lic university a half million private dollars last year. Up rose Miss Perkins to talk of Labor and Society. Above her head, from behind a U. S. flag on the Theater's facade, peeped a large-lettered plaque: A GIFT OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. When she was done, President Sproul slipped a silken hood over her head, pronounced her a Doctor of Laws. The crowd rose, cheered when he did the same to Herbert Hoover. Then it enveloped...
...wonders to fall on this Day of Days, surely the most wonderful will be the realization on the part of the American people that all their problems cannot be solved by legislation, and that to make a man swear allegiance to a flag, whether or no it be that of his birth, is tantamount in folly to betting on Oxford in the Oxford-Cambridge crew race. University and school teachers, whenever they gather in secret, must drink toasts to Der Tag that is dear to their hearts--when the American Legion will have been deafened by the noise...
...September 1837, having captured a Seminole chief. Major General Thomas S. Jesup persuaded Osceola to meet one of his officers under a flag of truce, treat for peace. Trustingly Osceola advanced with several chiefs and 198 tribespeople. All threw down their guns. When the parley was well started, General Jesup's soldiers leaped from the bushes, captured the Indians without a struggle. Osceola was imprisoned in Charleston. S. C.'s Fort Moultrie where he died after three months, officially of "a quinsy." General Jesup spent the rest of his life trying to justify his black treachery...