Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Griffin in his article, "What is the matter with the people?" (TIME, July 20) has hit the nail on the head. . . . Believe me, the people are getting pretty dam' tired of selfish interests, political skimeroodle, and red tape. We want action, not oratory; sacrifices, not parades; victories, not flag waving. And we want it not after the elections, not next week, not tomorrow...
...cannot help; dead men have been picked up clutching large sums in their fists. The Italians cover the dead with cloth and carry them away; the Germans kick the dead in the gutter. Greece has many Lidices, towns razed and marked only by a sign printed on a swastika flag...
...stumps of his handless arms (mutilated by the Spaniards) over a group of prone Spanish soldiers, like a mad maestro leading an infernal symphony. Over his shoulders glared the faces of Revolutionists Francisco Bilbao (with beard) and Araucanian Chief Caupolican (with one blind eye). Behind them, clutching a Chilean flag, swayed the small figure of Chile's liberator, Bernardo O'Higgins. The two panels were connected by a broad ceilingful of abstract designs. Title of the whole: Death for the Invader...
Died. Rev. Conrad le Despenser Roden Noel, 73, vicar of Thaxted, England, whose crusty championship of Marxian socialism had made his modest Essex vicarage a center of political and ecclesiastical turmoil since his appointment in 1910. Known as "the Red vicar," Father Noel once flew a red flag from his steeple, during World War I hung the green banner of the Irish Sinn Fein party near his pulpit, refused to permit the British Union Jack in his church...
Under the direction of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, the band played in a semi-circle around the flagpole until 8 o'clock when the flag was lowered to the sound of Retreat played by the Navy phonograph. Following that ceremony, the members of the Naval School raced for doorways in order to check in on time, but leaned from the windows where they continued to listen to the program...