Word: flags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subjects to addressing cards which were chiefly or entirely about winning the war, with "Merry Christmas" omitted altogether. Typical was a card on which a beefy British bulldog bestrides the Union Jack with the greeting: "Strong and yet kind, whilst children near him play, but foes who touch the flag will...
...theatre slang, they're handcuffed: an audience which does not applaud; chew the scenery: to rant; flag: curtain; and cakes: the manager pays the actor's board; playing to the gas: a miserably small audience...
...Keep a boot wedged in the Open Door. This would mean taking a strong line against Japan-not only by keeping the flag above the Philippines but by resisting every Japanese advance in China and the East Indies; and would presuppose a willingness to oppose Japan with arms if necessary. After two years as High Commissioner to the Philippines, Paul Vories McNutt returned to the U. S. as a burning apostle of this view. The present High Commissioner, Francis Bowes Sayre, is a rabid convert to it. And it is a good bet that some time soon Filipino President Manuel...
Primer children sat at tiny armchairs in front, first-grade children at small desks in the centre, other pupils at bigger desks along the sides. They stood up to salute the big flag, then began their lessons While primer pupils went to play with dolls in the "play corner" and other pupils busied themselves with books, Miss Campbell announced: "First grade reading. Five tots marched to the front of the room, seated themselves on a long recitation bench. There Miss Campbell gave them a Christmas story to read in an Elson-Gray reader, sent them back to their seats with...
Beasts of Berlin (Producers Pictures Corp.). In the windy March of 1918 Manhattan's flag-wrapped Broadway Theatre flaunted an announcement: "WARNING: Any person throwing mud at this poster will not be prosecuted." The poster advertised a new thriller: The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin. Inside the theatre, girl ushers, togged out as Belgian peasants, distributed programs which promised "an amazing expose of the intimate life of the Mad Dog of Europe." The picture did not quite live up to the promise. It described the hardships and eventual victory of the conquered Belgians. Hero was the original Tarzan, big, soft...