Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First the realization came to the small towns, where people lived close together. Many of the little towns now had lost one of their boys; many of them had a service flag with a gold star hanging in a parlor window along one of their shade-dappled streets. To little, ink-smelling newspaper offices went a mother or a father, holding stiffly the telegram from Washington and the picture that had stood on the mantel...
University of Southern California. Over the stone archway entrance to Bovard Administration Building flaps a red-white-&-blue service flag with 1,300 stars to denote U.S.C.'s contribution to the fighting forces. Sorority girls who turned up their noses at privates a year ago will go necking with them now. Just after Pearl Harbor the prevailing attitude was "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we drill"; in the first blackout last winter, U.S.C. fraternity men made merry chasing around sorority houses. Now they take blackouts seriously...
...Christian X had not counted on the mighty loyalty of his people. From Copenhagen's main street to the bypaths of the tiniest village flew the red-&-white-colored flag of a Denmark which was once free...
...from Lima to Bolling Field, where waited Franklin Roosevelt and pomp & circumstance. Although no parade had been scheduled, seven military bands and guards of honor at "present arms" flanked the four-mile route. In sockets on Franklin Roosevelt's "Sunshine Special," his big, shiny limousine, stood the Presidential flag and Peru's red-and-white banner. Government workers hung out of office windows. It was Washington's first parade since Pearl Harbor...
...show itself completely cold-shoulders the war - in fact, it opens with a burlesque of flag-waving songs called Let's Get It Over. What wartime reminders there were came from the many uniforms in the audience, the very few chorus boys on the stage, the chorus girls all under 18 or over 31. The costume problem created by rationing was agreeably solved by comparative nudity...