Word: streamered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tears and Little Arthur's History of England. He learned by heart the questions & answers in the 48th edition of The Child's Guide to Knowledge, by a Lady ("Question: What bird furnishes military plumes? Answer: That beautiful bird, the common cock of our farmyards: the long streamer feathers of his neck and back, and the stiffer ones of his tail, are formed by industrious females into a variety of elegant shapes, according to regimental regulations...
...with the crossing of the Rhine barrier was tempered by caution this time. The U.S. was through with such bumptious assumptions as it had made after General Patton's dash past Paris last summer. "A Feeling of Coming Victory," said the Chicago Sun's streamer. But this time it was not entirely the caution of earlier disappointment that kept down the premature cheering. It was also a more intimate realization of what the end of the war in Europe would mean...
Ever since "Col. D. Streamer" (Harry Graham) wrote this callous little quatrain (Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes') in 1901, British poetasters have amused themselves by writing variations on the theme. Recently London's weekly Time & Tide offered prizes for the best wartime ruthless rhyme. Three of the six prizewinners...
...year ago the Star-Times broke a double-streamer expose of faulty ammunition manufacture at the Government's St. Louis Ordnance Plant (world's biggest for small-arms ammunition, operated by United States Cartridge Co.). The Star-Times had nailed down its charges with employes' affidavits, had Byron Price's go-ahead to print...
...Chicago Sun provided sleuth-minded readers with all the clues they needed. First the Sun topped Page One with a streamer: NEWS DISPATCHES or VITAL IMPORTANCE IN TOMORROW'S CHICAGO SUN. Supplementing this was a two-column box plugging the imminence of big news, and next to the box a dispatch from the Sun's London Correspondent Frederick Kuh saying: ". . . inter-Allied negotiations [now are coming] to fruition. . . ." Finally the Sun featured a Berlin radio report that Roosevelt and Churchill had met to discuss North Africa...