Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hull, England, fortnight ago, a crowd of about 300 gathered in the early morning before the prison yard to watch the flagstaff. Many were praying. Two unarmed policemen with their thumbs stuck purposefully in their belts kept the crowd in order. At 9 o'clock a black flag broke out on the staff. By that signal spectators knew that, despite a blizzard of petitions to the Lord Mayor of Hull, to the Home Secretary, to King George himself, Mrs. Ethel Lille Major had died on the gallows for poisoning her truckdriver husband, first woman to be executed in England...
ALTHOUGH the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition have been many times edited and reedited since their first publication, little has been written heretofore upon the personnel of the group which carried the American flag into the wilderness of the Northwest in the first decade of the last century. Charles Wilson, self-styled "recreational student of farming and frontier history" of Arkansas, has fortunately taken upon himself the task of writing a biography of Meriwether Lewis, leader of the band of discovery...
...Walk (Warner). That patriotic fervor is an emotion only a shade less potent at the box office than mother love and Christian piety is a premise which the cinema has demonstrated periodically from The Birth of a Nation to The President Vanishes. Warner Brothers were quick to perceive that flag-waving is as well suited to light musicomedy as to serious drama. Flirtation Walk, made with "the full co-operation of the U. S. Army." is an animated advertisement for West Point, Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, and military discipline in general. In it, Dick Powell is the impudent private...
Stand fast, Chicago will win Stand fast, we'll never give in Hold high the flag of Maroon Flag of Maroon, oh, flag of Maroon And we'll fight on, Chicago will win Fight on, we'll never give in Hold high the flag of Maroon As high as the sun at noon...
Three years ago Luis Quintanilla was a great man in Madrid. A burning revolutionist all his life, he plotted ardently for the overthrow of Alfonso XIII and with his own hands ran up the first Republican flag over the Royal Palace. Socialist Indalecio Prieto was Minister of Finance then and commissioned Luis Quintanilla to paint huge frescoes on the walls of the Casa del Pueblo and the great new University City out at Moncloa Park. Free-spending Prieto lost his job and Spain swung farther to the Right. Fearing a Fascist dictatorship, perhaps even a restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy...