My wife also hates America, which she secretly semaphores by her sleeveless outfits.
By Peter Kane Dufault The New Yorker, November 1 , 1958P. 148 Whatever the maples meant -autumnal semaphore View Article By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick.
Railroads then began to add colored disks to the opposite ends of the semaphore arm, illuminated by kerosene and then by electric lights.
Some plan to send messages by semaphore, others to dress as fish.
He agreed to speak to me by semaphore from atop his offices on Lake Shore Drive.
"Thank you very much for having me here," she called out, spreading her arms wide as if signaling by semaphore.
Making big, clean-cut gestures that bring to mind someone signaling an airplane by semaphore, Ms. Hodges works hard to fill the contours of an outsize personality.
If aforementioned recliner IS by the water, it would make it likely that the floor-flipping tiny dancer on her side is actually attempting to communicate by semaphore.
The story is set in motion by a lovely opening scene in which Chito, a sailor, is returning from the sea, eagerly signaling from the ship by semaphore flag to the woman he has left waiting for him.
"After the Battle of Waterloo, a cross-Channel transmission, probably by semaphore, was received at Dover, saying 'Wellington Defeated.' "For some reason, maybe fog, no further details were forthcoming.
