Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cross is above the flag. In any issue between country and God, the clear duty of the Christian is to put obedience to God above every other loyalty...
...Guides, Belgium's crack infantry regiment, with little tassels dangling from their caps. British sailors followed, and behind them a dismounted detachment of the 5th Inniskilling Dragoons, the British regiment of which Albert was Colonel-in-Chief. French troops preceded the Paris post of the American Legion. The flags of the Belgian Army formed a quilt of fluttering black, yellow and red against the grey sky. Every regiment was represented by a squad of nine men, marching abreast, the colonel at one end, a private at the other. King Albert's coffin, draped in the national flag, rode...
After three weeks of desultory rioting, Paris suddenly became its ancient savage self. Mobs of veterans, of Communists, of screaming young Royalists tore through the streets. Some were headed by brass bands, some carried the tricolor, some the red flag. Each group was for a different cause but all were united against the small-mindedness of the Chamber of Deputies. In the broad Place de la Concorde occurred the bloodiest street battles Paris has seen since 1871. Drawn up at the opposite end of the square were blue-caped police, steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles and mounted squadrons of the Garde...
...Describe the royal French flag...
...Venus ruled the show business. Cohan went home, wrote "Venus, My Shining Star," sold it for $25. He still thinks it is his best song, not excepting "Harrigan" (1907), "Mary's a Grand Old Name" (1905), "Give My Regards to Broadway" (1904), "You're a Grand Old Flag" (1907), "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy...