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“On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.”

War Running Trouble Fronts Towns Graves Glorious Halls Cemetery Decoration Decorating Flagpoles

Book:Preacher's Boy

Source: Preacher's Boy

“The "Wet Tongue Gets Stuck To A Frozen Flagpole" attack!”

Tongue Stuck Wet Frozen Flagpoles

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she’d accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was “that awful O’Neill girl” all over again.”

Girl Lines Accepting Boys Too Much Car Fit Jokes Expectations Dare Awful Climbs Riding Outrageous Ohio Zenith Riding In A Car Flagpoles

Author:Libba Bray

“I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.”

Has Beens Said Next Baseball The Next One Flagpoles

Author:Babe Ruth

“Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.”

Years Children Stills Different Stories Grows Sides Family Happened Identity Absence Debate Narrative Agreement Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren Different Sides Flagpoles

Book:The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir

Source: The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir

“Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.”

Climbing Flagpoles

Author:Warren G. Harding

“Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.”