Word: flags
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people''; when philosophical Ferd is stoned for predicting Germany will lose the War; when the Battle of Verdun makes so many of his playmates orphans; when people, tired of Death and Patriotism, bootleg food under police noses; when two mutilated soldiers symbolically reveal the blood beneath the flag waving...
...hate pink, red and yellow; I think Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt were great Americans; I try to emulate the British in an American way. I like our flag as it is?I am a nationalist. I am referred to as a Naval expert, Naval authority, Naval critic, writer and lecturer? and other things that won't bear repeating. Enthusiasts claim I am the best posted man in the U. S. on national defense. I claim nothing and expect less; but whatever I represent, it is all American?which seems to arouse suspicion as well as curiosity...
...Diego, over which he sailed three weeks ago, was named Eckener Pass by Major Carl Spats, Army flyer, and Commander Van Arnauld de la Perier of the German cruiser Emden. In dedication they flew over the pass, dropped a parachute with a, German and a U. S. flag attached. The 'other christening was by Luft Hansa, German air transport company, who named one of its huge new trimotored Rohrback-Romar transoceanic planes the D ok tor Eckener...
...Paris for a divorce. There she conveniently meets the diplomat. The picture has all the proper- ties of its predecessor, but lacks the popular sentimentality. Worst shot: Rod La Rocque as the diplomat in a golf sweater which might better have been used to flag an airplane. The Hottentot (Warner Vitaphone). The Hottentot is a terrifying racing steed. He belongs to a horsey Eastern family, needs a rider in the coming steeplechase. From California comes Edward Everett Horton to visit. He loves the daughter of the house, Patsy Ruth Miller, who can love only horsey men. Timid, sedentary, Horton...
Fortunately, all this was not billed, like most of Author Cohan's opera, as "An American Comedy." George Cohan was born in 1878 on July 4. He has emphasized this accident ever since by waving the U. S. flag whenever possible. This irritating propensity, together with his blatant assurance, are the most disagreeable qualities in a man who is otherwise a shrewd and skillful playwright, a mime whose side-of-the-mouth technique with songs or wisecracks has made him a success in an almost infinite number of "American comedies," from Little Johnny Jones to The Merry Malones...