Word: flags
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flowers, no music, no women-such was the Spartan order of the day in the U. S. Embassy at Paris last week, when three most solemn funeral orations were pronounced over the flag-draped coffin of Myron Timothy Herrick of Cleveland, beloved and glamor-crowned Ambassador. Greatly impressed by the fact that the late Marshal Ferdinand Foch ordered "No flowers!" (TIME, April 1), Mr. Herrick said when his own death drew nigh, "I also want no flowers...
...first, in 1914, was when he refused to follow the French government fleeing to Bordeaux before the German advance. Cannily he declaimed: "The American flag will stay over the American embassy and I will stay with it. There are times when a dead ambassador is of more value than a live...
...stricken people of Shantung. Cowed by the scowling marshal, who chews fat Havana cigars and particularly likes to spit brown in people's faces, they could only groan, "How do the wicked flourish!" Shrewd as well as ruthless, Chang Tsung-chang at once ran up the five-barred flag which used to stand for the Chinese Republic ten years ago, but has stood for every kind of despotism since. One or two gullible correspondents, new at the Chinese game, soon described this shameless old flag-waver as the "Democratic Marshal...
...plane and set up their tent, a fierce wind rose from the north. Their indicator showed it roaring 85 m. p. h. The wind grew stronger. The plane bobbed up and down against its stay ropes. Stronger the wind. Gould, holding a rope, "was blown straight out like a flag." The men hugged the ice, dug knives into it to keep from blowing away. "The wind bellowed and shrieked at us. Pieces of snow, big lumps, began to hit us. They were pieces of packed snow from the mountain two miles away...
...pomp of state receptions, and the beneficent smile of official welcome, a corps of students, comprising 150 members of the Young Australia League, winds its way over the country "to see, to learn, and to make friends." The arduous moments at attention while the official representative presents the appropriate flag with the appropriate word, and the informal back slapping of local Rotarians may tend to obscure the professed view of the young adventurers...