Word: tags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Originator of this famed tag for George Washington was Representative Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee of Virginia who used it during his funeral oration before the Senate and the House of Representatives. †In the Capitol rotunda hangs Painter John Trumbull's version of the surrender, with Washington in the background, Cornwallis absent...
Last week a group of Chicago aldermen decided that there had been too many tag days in their city. They planned a reductio ad absurdum. At one session of the City Council they got their drowsy colleagues to ordain tag days for the following: The Brewers' & Bartenders' Union; Tom, Dick & Harry, unemployed; ex-King Alfonso;* the Chicago White Sox (which has lowest standing in the American League). When the drowsy aldermen discovered how they had been tagged, the ordinances were revoked...
Many Southern States have adopted the one-tag system for one reason or another. One theory is that too many two-car owners bought tags for one car, placing one tag on one car, the other on the other. Another is that one tag costs less than two, which is probably a more likely reason...
...state that Guide Hall saw a big car with a Mississippi tag rolling toward him. Since the State of Mississippi uses only one license plate, which is in the rear, it is evident that Guide Hall was able to distinguish this car by one of Mississippi's famed products. "Mississippi Mud." You neglected to state in your article that Mississippi probably has fewer paved roads than any other State in the Union...
...front of Mrs. Bilbo's one tag car, sharp-eyed Guide Hall spied the coat of arms of Mississippi...